While Altman possibly overstated the capabilities of today’s AI systems, he underlined the importance of figuring out how to safety-test those same systems.
“One of the first things we need to do — and this is now happening — is to get the government to start figuring out how to do safety testing of these systems, like we do for aircraft or new medicines,” he said. “I personally, probably have a conversation with someone in the government every few days.”