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- Palantir CEO Alex Karp argued for “reasonable guidelines” on artificial intelligence regulation.
- Karp said builders of harmful tech should be held liable for their actions.
- His comments come amid calls to slow down AI development.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp called for “reasonable guidelines” on artificial intelligence regulation as tech and policy leaders deliberate over the technology.
“You have to find a way to set reasonable guidelines that are enforced, but you can’t do it,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday. “The first line of defense is you’re liable for your own actions.”
Karp also argued for civil and criminal liability for those building technology capable of upending the world. Those not doing anything about it are “not being responsible,” he said.
The tech CEo’s comments come as policymakers and tech leaders debate how to regulate sophisticated AI models after researchers warned of the technology’s dire risks to humanity. Anthropic‘s Dario Amodei chimed in over the weekend, calling for a slowdown in the frontier.
As calls for AI regulation pairs unlikely rivals Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, President Donald Trump has lashed out, calling AI a “hoax” in several social media posts over the last few days.
Tech CEOs, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg have also joined his side. Zuckerberg said on X this week that AI labs that fail to “focus on alignment will fall behind.”
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new cases of “unexpected or concerning” model behavior within the last six months. This comes in addition to the Hugging Face breach, which sparked debate over wider AI safety precautions.
“We need to get serious,” Karp told CNBC on Thursday.
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