The company you founded ChatGPT, turn on AI“can go out of business” in European Union (EU) is not in a position to adapt to the new law to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in the community bloc. This was announced by its co-founder and CEO this Wednesday. sam altmanwho is currently on a European tour to try to impress arrangementHe doesn’t seem polite.

At a demonstration at University College London, Altman said he received “a lot of” criticism over the wording of the new regulation, which should be approved in June. Although still under study, the law categorizes uses of artificial intelligence according to their purpose. risk establish more or less rigid obligations. The text places major language models such as those powered by ChatGPT under the “high risk” label, which will push OpenAI -participation Microsoft– subject to strict external controls to comply with transparency and risk management requirements and to monitor the data used by the chatbot.

Altman doesn’t like the idea. “We may or may not be able to meet these requirements. If we can, we will, if we can’t, we will stop the activity… We will try, but there are technical limits to what is possible.” announced in London.

pressure tour

That’s why he recently took a tour to meet and discuss this issue with European organizers. This “tour” led him to sit next to the President of the Spanish Government. Pedro Sanchezalso from his French counterpart, Emmanuel MacroNOand the British Prime Minister, Rishi Altar. It’s unclear whether Altman came out of these meetings in a better position than he came from.

In the aforementioned law, the head of OpenAI pointed out that the law has become final. Brussels “it’s not inherently flawed” but “the finer details here really matter.” He also said that his preference for regulation is “something between the traditional European approach and the traditional American approach,” without specifying what he meant by that.

According to Altman, the trip to Europe also stemmed from OpenAI’s search for a location on the continent to open an office. “We want to build a research and engineering office in Europe, not regulation. We’re trying to figure that out,” he said on Tuesday. “Poland would be an interesting place.”

regulatory surge

Interestingly, Altman’s tour did not include a stop. Italy, a country that temporarily blocks access to ChatGPT on suspicion of violating the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD). Roma lifted that veto when the company made certain changes to the chatbot, including enabling an option to “not remember” data shared by users from one session to the next.