Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry into AI, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on Monday. The inquiry holds its next hearing in Canberra on 1 October.

Anthropic has asked for another date because the invitation came late last week, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. OpenAI cited the same reason and said it could not arrange for its executives to appear in the short time frame.

Anthropic told Bloomberg it will send executives from the US and Australia. The report did not name them or say which hearing they will attend.

OpenAI goes to a different committee

OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, will instead fly in from the US to appear before a separate body, the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, in Sydney on 6 October, an OpenAI spokesperson said.

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