To promote AI effectively, policymakers must look beyond ChatGPT

The emergence of ChatGPT — which reached 100 million active users just two months after launch — has everyone talking about artificial intelligence (AI), including lawmakers in Washington. Senators and the Biden administration have already expressed concern about the disruptive potential of new AI technologies. 

Between academia’s reservations about the impacts of these technologies, Chinese companies’ attempts to roll out competing models and worries about new AI models being used to supercharge influence operations, policymakers seem to agree that urgent action…