OpenAI’s Altman sees progress on election security and other AI policy challenges

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said election security efforts related to artificial intelligence challenges have gone better than expected this year, while expressing confidence in his company’s approach to developing the groundbreaking technology and how it aligns with an emerging policy landscape, during a May 7 Brookings Institution event.

“We haven’t seen the predicted wave of AI-generated disinformation yet, though we could,” Altman said. “We’ve built up the technical defenses and the societal antibodies” to AI-generated and distributed disinformation targeting elections...