The attorneys general of California and Delaware on Friday warned OpenAI they have \u201cserious concerns\u201d about the safety of its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens.\n<\/p>\n
The two state officials, who have unique powers to regulate nonprofits such as OpenAI, sent the letter to the company after a meeting with its legal team earlier this week in Wilmington, Delaware.\n<\/p>\n
California AG Rob Bonta and Delaware AG Kathleen Jennings have spent months reviewing OpenAI\u2019s plans to restructure its business, with an eye on \u201censuring rigorous and robust oversight of OpenAI\u2019s safety mission.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
But they said they were concerned by \u201cdeeply troubling reports of dangerous interactions between\u201d chatbots and their users, including the \u201cheartbreaking death by suicide of one young Californian after he had prolonged interactions with an OpenAI chatbot, as well as a similarly disturbing murder-suicide in Connecticut. Whatever safeguards were in place did not work.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
The parents of the 16-year-old California boy, who died in April,\u00a0sued OpenAI<\/a>\u00a0and its CEO, Sam Altman, last month.\n<\/p>\n OpenAI didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.\n<\/p>\n Founded as a nonprofit with a safety-focused mission to build better-than-human artificial intelligence, OpenAI had recently sought to transfer more control to its for-profit arm from its nonprofit\u00a0before dropping those plans<\/a>\u00a0in May after discussions with the offices of Bonta and Jennings and other nonprofit groups.\n<\/p>\n The two elected officials, both Democrats, have oversight of any such changes because OpenAI is incorporated in Delaware and operates out of California, where it has its headquarters in San Francisco.\n<\/p>\n After dropping its initial plans, OpenAI has been seeking the officials\u2019 approval for a \u201crecapitalization,\u201d in which the nonprofit\u2019s existing for-profit arm will convert into a public benefit corporation that has to consider the interests of both shareholders and the mission.\n<\/p>\n Bonta and Jennings wrote Friday of their \u201cshared view\u201d that OpenAI and the industry need better safety measures.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The attorneys general of California and Delaware on Friday warned OpenAI they have \u201cserious concerns\u201d about the safety of its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens. 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