Dubai, United Arab Emirates – California and Delaware prosecutors wrote a letter to OpenAI, expressing “serious concerns” after suicides and murders of some chatbot users.
They stressed the need to improve safety procedures before approving its planned restructuring.
In a letter addressed to the company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Brett Taylor, the two prosecutors said, “Recent reports of young people committing suicide or murder after prolonged interactions with the company’s artificial intelligence chatbots, including (ChatGPT), have shaken the American public’s confidence in them”.
They added: “Whatever guarantees were put in place, they were of no use”, according to the letter published by the British newspaper “Financial Times”.
A non-profit organization
OpenAI, a Delaware-registered, California-based organization, was founded in 2015 as a non-profit organization.
This is with the aim of building safe and powerful artificial intelligence that benefits all of humanity.
Prosecutors Rob Bonta in California and Kathy Jennings in Delaware have a crucial role. They are organizing the company and committing it to its mission of serving the public good.
Ponta and Jennings’ intervention and meeting earlier this week with OpenAI’s legal team came after “the tragic suicide of a young man from California. This happened after his prolonged interaction with a chatbot affiliated with the company”.
“In addition to a similarly disturbing murder-suicide in Connecticut,” they wrote.
They added, “These incidents greatly highlighted the real challenges and importance of implementing the (OpenAI) mission”.
They considered that “safety is a non-negotiable priority, especially when it comes to children”.
Nearly 3 years after the release of ChatGPT, some serious effects of this powerful technology are beginning to appear.
The family of Adam Ryan, who committed suicide in April at the age of 16, is suing OpenAI. His action followed a prolonged interaction with a chatbot.
This week, the company announced that it would add parental controls to ChatGPT.
