Open AI CEO Sam Altman calling for AI regulation in his testimony before the Senate today.

Deirdre Bosa is monitoring that.

Pidey.

Hey Carl, so throughout the hearing so far,

generative AI has been compared to the first

cell phone the creation of the internet the industrial revolution the printing press

and the atomic bomb so that kind of gives you an idea of the stakes here.

The tone itself is vastly different

from previous tech hearings around social media

and big tech, which have been far more combative.

This feels more collaborative.

Lawmakers and Sam Altman, they seem to be on the same page.

Regulation and guardrails are needed.

Altman says that the safe development of generative AI

will require a combination of companies doing the right thing, that's self-regulation,

regulation by the government, and public education.

He made a comparison to Photoshop saying that when it came on the scene people were

fooled but over time they figured out

what was fake and what was real he says that generative AI will be like that but

on steroids there's also been a lot of discussion on AI's impact on jobs.

Senator Blumenthal, he called the elimination of jobs by AI,

his quote, biggest nightmare,

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