In the past week, Sam Altman was fired and then re-hired as chief executive officer of ChatGPT creator OpenAI. As The Wall Street Journal recently wrote, “The crisis at OpenAI is personifying a question that has been boiling inside the AI industry and creating angst among technology giants and world leaders: Who can be trusted to open the Pandora’s box that artificial intelligence might represent?”
Patrick Hall is a teaching assistant professor of decision sciences at the George Washington University School of Business, teaching data ethics, business analytics, and machine learning classes. He also conducts research in support of NIST's AI risk management framework and is affiliated with leading fair lending and AI risk management advisory firms. Prior to joining the GW School of Business, Patrick co-founded BNH.AI, a boutique law firm focused on AI governance and risk management. He led H2O.ai's efforts in responsible AI, resulting in one of the world's first commercial applications for explainability and bias mitigation in machine learning.
Hall can discuss the recent shakeup at OpenAI as well as larger themes around trustworthy AI and AI governance. He says the AI doomer vs. AI boomer dichotomy is counter-productive to actual AI governance and risk management efforts.
“The problem with today's AI is not that it will destroy the world,” Hall says. “The problems with today's AI are risks related to:
- abuse of AI for disinformation or hacking;
- data privacy violations;
- enhanced corporate and government surveillance;
- errors ("hallucinations");
- hacks and attacks on critical AI systems;
- intellectual property infringements;
- over-reliance on AI by humans;
- unsafe autonomous vehicles;
- and weakening of our democratic institutions.”
If you would like to speak with Prof. Hall, please contact GW Senior Media Relations Specialist Cate Douglass at [email protected].
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