OpenAI’s Sam Altman disagrees with Elon Musk on pausing AI research

OpenAI CEO and cofounder Sam Altman has been vocally supportive of regulation in the AI space. Speaking at the ET Conversations event earlier this week, Altman said he was in favour of regulations for OpenAI and large companies.

Asked about Tesla cofounder and Twitter boss Elon Musk’s stance on wanting to halt AI research, Altman said he would prefer external audits and red teaming safety tests (simulating cyberattacks to test security) when it comes to keeping the technology in check.

“I think a better framework is external audits, red teaming safety tests. When we finished GPT-4, it took us more than six months until we were ready to release it.