OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend the 54th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on January 18, 2024.
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OpenAI announced Monday that it is partnering with Common Sense Media on an initiative designed to help teens understand how to use artificial intelligence safely.
“We want to ensure that this tool is used safely and responsibly by teenagers and as part of their educational experiences,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a Common Sense event in San Francisco. “We want to find a way to make it widely available to the people who are going to use it.”
Common Sense is a nonprofit organization focused on making technology safe and accessible to children, with the goal of helping parents, children, and educators better understand the risks and benefits of technology. We are working on developing an AI rating and review system. Among the questions Common Sense hopes to answer are whether AI will foster a desire to learn in young people, whether it will respect human rights and children’s rights, and the potential for this technology to perpetuate the spread of misinformation. Is there such a thing?
The goal of the new partnership is to help create AI guidelines and educational materials for children, educators, and parents, and curate large-scale language models for “family-friendly” GPT brands that align with Common Sense ratings and standards. It’s about supporting. GPT is the backbone of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot released in late 2022.
Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media, said in a statement that the materials developed through the partnership are aimed at “educating families and educators about the safe and responsible use of ChatGPT, and this emerging technology.” “We will be able to collectively avoid the unintended consequences of this.”
At Monday’s event, Altman spoke briefly about the partnership and AI more broadly, saying he hopes it will “benefit children” who don’t have access to AI. Part of OpenAI’s mission is to “make really useful AI available for free,” he said.
In September, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the philanthropic arm of the Craigslist founder, announced it had donated $3 million to help fund Common Sense AI and education initiatives. Craig Newmark told CNBC at the time that some of the concerns about AI include the possibility that malicious actors could use the technology to influence the information ecosystem and foment public discontent. He said he was there.
OpenAI and Common Sense do not say how the LLM will be tailored to support educators and youth. Altman said an LLM customized for educational purposes could help teens “who want to learn about science or who want to learn about biology.”
“I think we still don’t know exactly how people want to use it,” Altman said. He added that he envisions a world where “every teen or every adult has a personalized AI.”
Regarding the upcoming election and the potential risks posed by so-called deepfakes to confuse people, Altman acknowledged that AI-generated images pose a problem, but said, “People are more sensitive than we believe.” I think it’s much more sophisticated and you won’t believe it.” Every image you see. ”
He talked about how OpenAI is preparing for the ways that bad actors could take advantage of AI.
“We have taken massive response measures,” he said. “This will be monitored very closely.”
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