U.S. officials on Tuesday warned financial firms and others that use of artificial intelligence can heighten the risk of bias and civil rights violations, and signaled they are policing marketplaces for such discrimination.
The growing popularity of AI tools, including Microsoft Corp-backed Open AI's ChatGPT, has spurred U.S. and European regulators to heighten scrutiny of their use and prompted calls for new laws to rein in the technology. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying to reach tech sector whistleblowers to determine where new technologies run afoul of civil rights laws, said Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra.