Altman and Amodei both said no to Australia's AI hearing.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei will skip Australia's Senate hearing on artificial intelligence on 1 October. Both told the committee the invitation arrived on too short notice. OpenAI is instead sending strategy chief Jason Kwon to a Sydney hearing on 6 October.
Why it mattersSenators called the hearing after an OpenAI crawler pushed past Australia's Medicare website blocks. The people who build these systems are choosing which parliaments get to question them.
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