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OpenAI is lobbying the Trump administration to speed up AI advancement and ease regulations, while highlighting its take on the dangers of AI technology coming out of China. The following Cornell University experts are available for comment.
John Thickstun
Assistant Professor
John Thickstun, assistant professor of computer science, studies machine learning – specifically, generative models.
Thickstun says:
“OpenAI advocates for less regulation and more infrastructure investment to ensure continued U.S. leadership in AI technologies. I broadly agree with these sentiments. I disagree with OpenAI regarding copyright and intellectual property (IP). The U.S. economy is built upon IP. Treating AI consumption of IP as fair use (as OpenAI advocates) prioritizes AI at the expense of the rest of the U.S. economy. Designing fair compensation and royalty models for IP consumed by AI requires further research. We should invest in this research, rather than cannibalizing our IP industries to train AI.”
Gregory Falco
Assistant professor in Cornell Engineering
Gregory Falco, assistant professor of engineering, is a cybersecurity expert.
Falco says:
“The U.S. needs to move to counter the rapidity and quality of AI capabilities coming out of China. The government is not the right arbitrator of what regulations should be put on the sector. As we discussed in a Nature Machine Intelligence Journal article, industry should self-regulate, and we need to help encourage that. Independent audit is the only way forward for allowing rapid development in a responsible way.”
