ChatGPT, a rapidly expanding artificial intelligence program, has been lauded for its capacity to compose responses to a wide variety of topics quickly and has garnered the attention of US lawmakers with concerns about its impact on national defence and education.

ChatGPT reportedly gained 100 million active users per month within two months after its inception, making it the leading consumer application and a growing regulatory target.

It was developed by OpenAI, a Microsoft-backed private enterprise, and made freely accessible to the public. Its prevalence has sparked concerns that generative AI, including ChatGPT, might be used to disseminate false material, while educators fear that children could abuse it to cheat.

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Spokesperson Ted Lieu, a Democrat on the House Science Committee, stated in a recent New York Times opinion piece that he was excited about artificial intelligence and the "unbelievable ways it will continue to progress society" but also "weirded out by AI, particularly AI that is left unchecked and uncontrolled."

Lieu introduced a motion authored by ChatGPT stating that Congress should start concentrating on AI "to verify that the growth and deployment of AI are conducted in a manner that is safe, ethical and reveres the privacy and rights of any and all Americans, and that benefits of AI were indeed widely circulated and the dangers are minimised."

According to staffers to Democratic politicians, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited Capitol Hill in January to meet with tech-savvy senators such as Senators Mark Warner, Ron Wyden, and Richard Blumenthal and Representatives Jake Auchincloss.

An aide to Representative Wyden reported that the senator pressed Altman on the need to ensure that artificial intelligence did not contain any biases that could lead to discrimination in the real world, such as housing or employment.

"While Senator Wyden believes AI has enormous promise to accelerate innovation and research, he is determined to prevent automated systems from automating discrimination in the process," said Wyden's assistant Keith Chu.

According to a second congressional staffer, the conversations centred on the AI advancement rate and its potential applications.

According to media reports, colleges in New York and Seattle have already banned ChatGPT due to concerns about plagiarism. According to a congressional aide, most people's concerns about cheating emanated from educators.

OpenAI stated, "We do not want ChatGPT to be used for deceptive objectives in school or anyplace else; hence we are already implementing mitigations to assist anyone in identifying text created by this system."

In an interview with Time, OpenAI's chief technical officer, Mira Murati, stated that the business welcomes feedback, especially from government agencies. "It is not too early," she said.

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Andrew Burt, founding partner of the AI liability law firm BNH.AI, cited national security issues, adding that he had spoken with MPs evaluating whether to restrict ChatGPT and comparable AI systems, such as Google's Bard, but he could not reveal their identities.

As per him, the business model of these artificial intelligence systems is that they possess the capacity to characterise products more quickly or in greater numbers than individuals. 

In light of this, she predicted that "possible bad players, semi-actors, and authorities whose interests oppose that of the U.S. will employ these tools to generate information that might be inaccurate or destructive."

When challenged about how it should be governed, ChatGPT demurred and stated, "As a neutral AI, I take no position on the precise legislation that may or may be implemented to control AI systems like me.

However, it then provided a list of potential areas of concern for regulators, including data protection, prejudice and fairness, and clarity in how responses are created.