OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Friday he has no plans to leave Europe, having made threats earlier this week to leave the country if upcoming artificial intelligence laws prove too difficult to comply with.
“We are excited to continue working here and have no plans to leave,” he said in a tweet.
The EU is working on what could be the world’s first regulation to regulate AI, and Altman said on Wednesday that the EU’s current draft AI law was a “pre-regulation”.
Altman’s threat to leave Europe drew criticism from EU industry leader Theodoric Breton and several MEPs.
Altman spent the last week on a trip to Europe, meeting with senior politicians from France, Spain, Poland, Germany, and the UK to discuss the future of AI and ChatGPT.
He called his tour “the most productive week of conversations in Europe about the best way to control AI.”
The AI-powered, Microsoft-powered chatbot ChatGPT has created new possibilities around AI, and fears about its potential have sparked panic and panic and brought it into conflict with regulators.
OpenAI first clashed with regulators in March, when Italian regulator Garante blocked the country’s data app, accusing OpenAI of breaching European privacy standards. ChatGPT is back online after the company put in place new privacy measures for users.
OpenAI announced Thursday that ten matching grants from $1 million will fund experiments to determine how AI software is governed, with Altman calling it “a way to democratically define the behavior of software programs.” AI”.
Reporting by Akanksha Khushi in Bengaluru and Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm; Published in Spanish by Benjamín Mejías Valentia)
