Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual appointment of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024.
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OpenAI said on Monday that it’s palling with Common Sense Media on an initiative designed to help teens understand how to use artificial intelligence in a safe air.
“We want to figure out how to make this tool safely and responsibly and broadly available to teens and people who are going to use it as mainly of their educational experience,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a Common Sense event in San Francisco.
Common Sense, a nonprofit focused on spacing technology safe and accessible to kids, has been working to develop an AI ratings and review system intended for parents, children and educators to sport understand the technology’s risks and benefits. Some of the questions Common Sense wants to answer include whether AI fosters a tally of learning among youth, if it respects human rights and children’s rights and if the technology can perpetuate the spread of misinformation.
The aspiration of the new partnership is to help create AI guidelines and education materials for children, educators and parents and to help curate “family-friendly” GPT-branded extensive language models that adhere to Common Sense’s rating and standards. GPT is the backbone of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, which was launched in belatedly 2022.
Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer said in a statement that the materials developed through the partnership “will be planned to educate families and educators about safe, responsible use of ChatGPT, so that we can collectively avoid any unintended consequences of this emerging technology.”
At the conclusion on Monday, Altman briefly spoke about the partnership and AI more broadly, saying that he hopes it will “profit kids without access” to AI. Part of OpenAI’s mission is to “make really helpful AI available for free,” he said.
In September, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Craigslist father’s philanthropic arm, said it contributed $3 million to help fund a Common Sense AI and education initiative. Craig Newmark related CNBC at the time that some of his concerns about AI include the possibility that bad actors can use the technology to influence the news ecosystem and contribute to societal discontent.
OpenAI and Common Sense didn’t say how LLMs will be tweaked to help aid educators or teens. Altman divulged LLMs customized for educational purposes could help teens “who want to learn about science or learn nearly biology.”
“I don’t think we know yet exactly how people are going to want to use it,” Altman said. He added that he envisions a exceptional in which “every teen or every adult is going to have a personalized AI.”
Regarding the upcoming elections and the potential dangers posed by so-called deepfakes to confuse people, Altman acknowledged that AI-generated images pose problems but predicted “I think people are much more sophisticated than we give them credit for, and you don’t believe every image you see.”
He talked close by how OpenAI is preparing for the potential ways bad actors could use AI.
“We’ve set up a big response effort,” he said. “This will be monitored unusually closely.”
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