Lawmakers reveal AI concerns over 'future of humanity' following OpenAI CEO's Senate testimony

Displaying bias, foreign adversaries like China becoming dominant, and outsmarting humans were all top artificial intelligence concerns for members of Congress. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional lawmakers spouted an array of concerns about artificial intelligence after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a Senate subcommittee that he saw problems the technology could create. "The overall risk is allowing China to win the AI race, because obviously, China would use the technology to further their aims of global ambition and to export their model of total techno-totalitarian control, which is nightmarish and would make Orwell blush," Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher said. "The other risk is that we don't maintain control of the technology, somehow it escapes our control." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that he had concerns about artificial intelligence's possibilities.