Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI, the company behind generative artificial intelligence model ChatGPT, released a statement on February 24th regarding the short-term and long-term prospects of their invention. Although well-intentioned, many technologists were perturbed by its tone – it felt as though Altman expected the world to change to suit the interests of the company, rather than the company opening itself up to social and political regulation to accommodate itself to our world. But what is ChatGPT and why is it causing concern? ChatGPT is arguably the first successful generative model of artificial general intelligence. As a large-language model, it offers several advantages over its competitors and predecessors. Firstly, ChatGPT is trained on a massive amount of data, a corpus …