On Monday OpenAI said it is going to take up partnership with Common Sense Media on an initiative designed to help teens understand how to use artificial intelligence in a safe manner. “We want to figure out how to make this tool safely and responsibly and broadly available to teens and people who are going to use it as part of their educational experience,”
This OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a Common Sense event in San Francisco.
Common Sense media AI
Common Sense, a nonprofit focused on making technology safe and accessible to kids, has been working to develop an AI ratings and review system intended for parents, children and educators to better understand the technology’s risks and benefits. Some of the questions Common Sense wants to answer include whether AI fosters a love of learning among youth, if it respects human rights and children’s rights and if the technology can perpetuate the spread of misinformation.
OpenAI for education
The goal of the new OpenAI partnership with Common Sense is to help create AI guidelines and education materials for children, educators and parents and to help curate “family-friendly” GPT-branded large language models that adhere to Common Sense’s rating and standards. GPT is the backbone of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, which was launched in late 2022.
Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer said in a statement that the materials developed through the partnership “will be designed to educate families and educators about safe, responsible use of ChatGPT, so that we can collectively avoid any unintended consequences of this emerging technology.”
OpenAI partnership
At the event on Monday, Altman briefly spoke about the OpenAI partnership and AI more broadly.
Sam Altman stated that he hopes it will “benefit kids without access” to AI. Part of OpenAI’s mission is to “make really helpful AI available for free,” he said.
In September, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Craigslist founder’s philanthropic arm, said it contributed $3 million to help fund a Common Sense AI and education initiative. As per Craig Newmark he had some concerns about AI. These included the possibility that bad actors can use AI to influence the information ecosystem and contribute to societal discontent.
Usage of large language models
OpenAI and Common Sense didn’t say how large language models (LLMs) will be tweaked to help aid educators or teens. Altman said LLMs customized for educational purposes could help teens “who want to learn about science or learn about biology.”
“I don’t think we know yet exactly how people are going to want to use it,” Altman said. He envisions a world in which “every teen or every adult is going to have a personalized AI.”
