Creator of ChatGPT: Who is Samuel Harris Altman?
"My biggest fear is that we, as the tech industry, are likely to cause significant damage to the world," says Samuel Harris Altman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of OpenAi, which developed ChatGPT.
Samuel Harris Altman, commonly known as Sam Altman, is an American entrepreneur and investor. He was born on April 22, 1985, in Indiana, United States. He is best known as the president of a famous technology acceleration and investment company called Hey Combinator.
Samuel Harris Altman (born 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and programmer. He was the co-founder of Loopt and is the current CEO of OpenAI. He was the president of Y Combinator and was briefly the CEO of Reddit.
Altman graduated from Stanford University with a Computer Science degree in 2005. After graduation, he participated in various initiatives and contributed to the emergence of successful projects. He joined Y Combinator's entrepreneurship team in 2011 and was appointed chairman in 2014, replacing founder Paul Graham. Altman has supported and led many of Y Combinator's successful technology initiatives.
Altman also heads the artificial intelligence research company OpenAI. He gave speeches and shared his experiences at various conferences on the future of technology, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and investments.
Altman, who testified at the US Senate Judiciary subcommittee in May 2023, said about the problems that may arise if ChatGPT is not limited by legal regulations, "My biggest fear is that we, as the technology industry, may cause significant damage to the world. I think it can happen in many different ways."
"As with all technological revolutions, I expect a significant impact on employment, but it's very difficult to predict exactly what that impact looks like," said Altman, warning the Senate that ChatGPT technology could "go to bad places."
Speaking about the growing popularity of ChatGPT and the positive and negative possibilities of artificial intelligence, Samuel Harris Altman acknowledged that the government must step in to ensure these changes are managed.
In the 3-hour meeting, Altman advised the US Senators to establish an independent mechanism to conduct licensing audits of artificial intelligence technologies and stated that this would allow a set of security standards, including the assessment of their dangerous capabilities, to be established.
This way, Altman said, we can make sure that the models "can't self-replicate and move on their own."