OpenAI partners with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI guidelines

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OpenAI hopes to earn the trust of parents and policymakers by partnering with organizations working to minimize the harms of technology and media to children, preschoolers, and teens. .

As a case in point, OpenAI today announced a partnership with Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization that reviews and ranks the suitability of various media and technologies for children, to create AI guidelines and guidelines for parents, educators, and youth. We announced that we will cooperate on educational materials.

As part of the partnership, OpenAI is collaborating with Common Sense Media to create “family-friendly” GPT (powered by OpenAI’s GenAI model) on OpenAI’s GPT marketplace, the GPT Store, based on Common Sense’s ratings and metrics, OpenAI Chatbot apps). CEO Sam Altman says:

“AI offers incredible benefits to families and teens, and our partnership with Common Sense further strengthens our commitment to safety,” Altman said in a statement. “We want to make sure that people can use our tools with confidence.”

The launch of this partnership means OpenAI joins Common Sense’s new framework for evaluations and reviews designed to assess the safety, transparency, ethical use, and impact of AI products, launched in September. This was done after the announcement was made. According to James Steyer, co-founder and CEO of Common Sense, Common Sense’s framework creates an AI-powered “nutrition label” for apps, highlighting the context in which the app will be used. The aim is to highlight potential opportunities and areas of harm. A set of “common sense” doctrines.

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In his press release, Steyer alluded to the fact that today’s parents are generally less knowledgeable about GenAI tools (such as OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT) than younger generations. An Impact Research poll commissioned by Common Sense Media late last year found that 58% of students between the ages of 12 and 18 had used ChatGPT, while 30% of parents of school-age children said he had used ChatGPT. It turns out that %.

“Common Sense and OpenAI will work together to ensure that AI has a positive impact on all teens and their families,” Steyer said in an emailed statement. “Our guides and curation are designed to educate families and educators about safe and responsible use. [OpenAI tools like] By using ChatGPT, we can collectively avoid the unintended consequences of this new technology. ”

OpenAI is under pressure from regulators to demonstrate that its GenAI-powered apps, including ChatGPT, benefit society as a whole, not disadvantage it. Just last summer, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into OpenAI into whether ChatGPT harmed consumers through collecting data about individuals and publishing false statements. European data authorities have also expressed concerns about OpenAI’s handling of personal information.

OpenAI’s tools, like other GenAI tools, are prone to confident fabrications and getting basic facts wrong. And they have biases and reflect the data used for training.

Whether they are aware of the tools’ limitations or not, children and teens are increasingly turning to them for help with academic as well as personal issues. According to a Center for Democracy and Technology poll, 29% of children reported using their ChatGPT to deal with anxiety or mental health issues, 22% for problems with friends, and 16% with family members. It is reported that it was used in a collision with