The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP) has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an attempt to block the release of powerful artificial intelligence systems to consumers. The complaint revolves around OpenAI's recently released large language model, GPT-4, which the CAIDP described in its March 30 complaint as "biased, deceptive, and a risk to privacy and public safety."
CAIDP, an independent nonprofit research organization, believes that the commercial release of GPT-4 violates Title 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits "unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce."
In support of its argument, AI Ethics pointed to the contents of the GPT-4 system card, which states: "We found that the model has the potential to reinforce and reproduce specific biases and worldviews, including harmful stereotypes and demeaning associations against certain marginalized groups." In the same document, it states: "AI systems will have a greater potential to reinforce entire ideologies, worldviews, truths and lies, and to solidify or lock them down to the exclusion of future debate, reflection and improvement."
The CAIDP added that OpenAI released GPT-4 to the public for commercial use with full knowledge of these risks and did not conduct an independent evaluation of GPT-4 prior to its release. Therefore, CAIDP wants the FTC to investigate the products of OpenAI and other operators of powerful AI systems: "Now is the time for the FTC to act on the market."
While ChatGPT-3 was released in November, the latest version, GPT-4, is believed to be ten times smarter. Published on March 14, a study found that GPT-4 was able to pass the most rigorous US high school and law exams, ranking in the top 90%. It can also detect smart contract vulnerabilities on Ethereum, etc. Elon Musk, Apple's Steve Wozniak, and many AI experts have signed a petition calling for a "moment" on the development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
CAIDP President Marc Rotenberg is one of 2,600 other signatories to the petition, which was filed on March 22 by the Future of Life Institute. The authors argue that "advanced artificial intelligence could represent profound changes in the history of life on Earth," for better or worse.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is also calling on countries to implement the UN’s framework of “Ethical Recommendations for Artificial Intelligence”. In other news, a former AI researcher at Google recently claimed that Google's AI chatbot "Bard" had been trained using ChatGPT responses.
While the researcher has since resigned over the incident, Google executives have denied the allegations made by their former colleagues.
