No easy answers to the ChatGPT regulatory puzzle

Credit: Alejandro Ospina

Even the most sanguine optimist about ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems admits to their potential for abuse and misuse. The capabilities of this new generation of AI raise a gauntlet of serious challenges, from the distortion of the information sphere to weaponization by trolls, hate groups, terrorists, and authoritarians. Even OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, concedes that “AI systems will have… great potential to reinforce entire ideologies, worldviews, truths and untruths, and to cement them or lock them in, foreclosing…