OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe – CEO

Might 26 (Reuters) – OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman stated on Friday, reversing a threat produced earlier this week to leave the area if it becomes as well hard to comply with upcoming artificial intelligence laws.

“We are excited to continue functioning right here and surely have no plans to leave,” he stated in a tweet.

The EU is functioning on what could be the 1st set of guidelines globally to govern artificial intelligence, and Altman stated on Wednesday that the EU’s existing draft AI law is “more than-regulated”.

Altmann’s threat to leave Europe drew criticism from EU sector chief Thierry Breton and a quantity of other MEPs.

Altman spent the previous week touring Europe, meeting with leading politicians in France, Spain, Poland, Germany and the UK to talk about the future of artificial intelligence and the progress of ChatGPT.

He known as his tour “a extremely productive week of conversation in Europe about how very best to regulate artificial intelligence!”

Artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft ( MSFT.O ), has made new possibilities about artificial intelligence, and fears about its prospective have triggered excitement and alarm – and place it at loggerheads with regulators.

OpenAI 1st ran afoul of regulators in March, when Italian information regulator Garante shut down the app in the nation, accusing OpenAI of violating European privacy guidelines. ChatGPT is back on line just after the enterprise introduced new privacy measures for customers.

OpenAI announced Thursday that it will award ten matching grants from a $1 million fund for experiments to identify how artificial intelligence application ought to be governed, with Altman calling the grants “how to democratically make a decision the behavior of AI systems.”

Reporting by Akanksha Khushi in Bengaluru and Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm Editing by Arun Koiiur

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Supantha leads the way in covering European technologies and telecommunications, with a unique concentrate on emerging technologies such as AI and 5G. He has been a journalist for about 18 years. He joined Reuters in 2006 and has covered a assortment of subjects from the economic sector to technologies. It is primarily based in Stockholm, Sweden.