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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 18, 2024.
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OpenAI said Monday it is partnering with Common Sense Media on an initiative designed to help teens understand how to use artificial intelligence safely.
“We want to figure out how to make this tool safely and responsibly and widely available to teens and those who want to use it as part of their educational experiences,” Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said at a Common Sense event in San Francisco. are going to be used as part of.”
Common Sense, a nonprofit focused on making technology safe and accessible for children, developed an AI rating and review system for parents, children, and teachers to better understand the risks and benefits of technology. Working to do. Some of the questions Common Sense seeks to answer include whether AI fosters a love of learning in young people, whether it respects human rights and children’s rights, and whether the technology can perpetuate the spread of misinformation .
The goal of the new partnership is to help create AI guidelines and education materials for kids, teachers, and parents, and to help create “family-friendly” GPT-branded large language models that adhere to Common Sense ratings and standards. GPT is the backbone of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, which was launched in late 2022.
Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media, said in a statement that the content developed through the partnership “will be designed to educate families and teachers about the safe, responsible use of ChatGPIT, so that we can collectively learn more about this emerging technology.” To avoid any unintended consequences.”
At the event on Monday, Altman spoke briefly about the partnership and AI more broadly, saying he hoped it would “benefit kids” without access to AI. Part of OpenAI’s mission is to “make really useful AI available for free,” he said.
In September, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the philanthropic arm of the Craigslist founder, said it had contributed $3 million to help fund the Common Sense AI and education initiative. Craig Newmark told CNBC at the time that some of his concerns about AI include the possibility that bad actors could use the technology to influence the information ecosystem and contribute to social unrest.
OpenAI and Common Sense did not say how LLM would be modified to assist teachers or teens. Altman said LLMs adapted for educational purposes could help teens who “want to learn about science or want to learn about biology.”
“I don’t think we know yet exactly how people will want to use it,” Altman said. He said he envisions a world in which “every teenager or every adult will have a personal AI.”
Regarding the upcoming election and the potential risks posed by so-called deepfakes to mislead people, Altman acknowledged that AI-generated images pose problems, but added, “I think more than people give them credit for.” Far more sophisticated, and you don’t believe every image you see.”
He talked about how OpenAI is preparing for potential ways bad actors could use AI.
“We have set up a major response effort,” he said. “This will be monitored very closely.”
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