OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faces Senate panel as pressure builds to regulate AI

Two companies are coming together to develop humanoid robots with AI that will be able to perform jobs from manufacturing to health care professions. Senators on Tuesday will grill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the "perils and promise" of artificial intelligence as part of a push to better understand this quickly emerging technology and impose some kind of regulatory regime around it. Altman will testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, which will mark his first time as a witness at a public congressional hearing. His testimony comes several weeks after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he is working on a regulatory blueprint and as several members of the House and Senate have talked about the need for rules of the road for AI. Members of the subcommittee have made it clear over the last week that they want to learn more about AI to make sure it's used safely and responsibly.