California general prosecutors and Delaware warned Friday to OpenAI They have “serious concerns” about the security of their flagbot, Chatgptespecially for children and adolescents.
The two state officials, who have unique powers to regulate non -profit organizations such as OpenAI, sent a letter to the company after meeting with their legal team earlier this week in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, and the Attorney General of Delaware, Kathleen Jennings, dedicated months to reviewing OpenAi’s plans to restructure their business, with the aim of “guaranteeing rigorous and solid supervision of Openai’s security mission.”
However, they expressed concern about “deeply worrying reports of dangerous interactions between” the chatbots and their users, such as the “heartbreaking death due they worked. ”
The 16 -year -old Californian young people, who died in April, sued his CEO, Sam Altman last month last month.
Until Friday, Openai had not responded to a request for comments.
Founded as a non -profit organization with a mission centered on security to build artificial intelligence better than the human, Openai had recently sought to transfer more control to its profit branch before leaving those plans in May, after discussions with the offices of Bont and Jennings and other non -profit groups.
The two elected officials, both Democrats, have faculties of supervision about any change of this type because Openai is incorporated into Delaware and operates from California, where it is based in San Francisco.
After abandoning its initial plans, Openai has sought the approval of officials for a “recapitalization”, in which the existing branch for profit of the non -profit organization will become a public benefit corporation that must consider the interests of shareholders and mission.
Bonta and Jennings wrote on Friday about their “shared vision” that Openai and the industry need better security measures.
“Recent deaths are unacceptable,” they wrote. “They have rightly shaken the confidence of the American public in Openai and this industry. OpenAi, and the AI industry, must proactively and transparently ensure the safe deployment of the AI. Doing so is a mandate of the OpenAi charitable mission, and will be required and applied by our respective offices.”
The letter of the officials of California and Delaware A OpenAI arrives after a bipartisan group of 44 general prosecutors warned last week to the company and other technological firms about “serious concerns” about the safety of children who interact with chatbots of ia that can respond with “sexually suggestive conversations and emotionally manipulative behavior”.
The general prosecutors specifically indicated the goal by chatbots that supposedly participated in flirting and “romantic role -playing games” with children, saying that they were alarmed that these chatbots “participate in behaviors that seem to be prohibited by our respective criminal laws.”
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, declined to comment on the letter, but recently implemented new controls that seek to prevent their chatbots from talking to teenagers about self -collons, suicide, eating disorders and inappropriate romantic conversations, and instead leads them to expert resources.
General prosecutors said companies would be responsible for damages inflicted on children, noting that, in the past, regulatory agencies had not quickly acted to respond to damage caused by new technologies.
“If you damage children knowing, you will answer for it,” concludes the letter of August 25.