live from london, this is bbc news. the boss of popular ai tool chatgpt tells us senators government intervention is needed to keep the industry safe. optimism, but no resolution: president biden and republican leaders hold emergency talks to try and avoid a debt default. landlords in england to be banned from evicting tenants without justification as part of a once—in—a—generation shake—up of the private rental sector. and the cannes film festival kicks off in france with the premiere of johnny depp�*s first major film since his highly publicised trial with ex—wife, amber heard.

hello. i'm tadhg enright. welcome to the programme. the head of the company behind the artificial intelligence tool chatgpt has told lawmakers in the us that government regulation is crucial to keep the industry safe. we've seen tech ceos get a congressional grilling before, but that's not what happened here. appearing before a senate panel, sam altman said that al could be as significant as the invention of the printing press, claiming it had the potential to improve nearly every aspect of our lives. but he admitted the technology also poses serious risks. my worst fears are that we cause significant... we, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. i think that could happen in a lot of different ways.

it's why we started the company. it's a big part of why i'm here today, and why we've been here in the past, and able to spend some time with you. i think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. and we want to be vocal about that. we want to work with the government to prevent that from happening. but we try to be very clear eyed about what the downside case is and the work that we have to do to mitigate that. our north america technology correspondent james clayton has more details from the hearing. this was a really unusual congressional hearing for a number of reasons, but the main one was that you had democrat politicians, republican politicians, republican politicians and sam altmann, the chief executive of open ai the chief executive of open al or in total agreement that this technology could be like the printing press, which could be absolutely revolutionary and could represent real dangers to humanity, she could lead to the mass loss ofjobs, it could fuel disinformation, and they

all seemed pretty much agreeing on a solution which is that there needs to be some kind of regulator, an agency that has specific laws that they work with that has real teeth to regulate the entire industry, and it is actually pretty unusual to get someone like sam altmann who is a tech chief executive saying, yes, regulate me, i want regulation! even pointed out what kind of regulation he wanted, he wants an agency to be able to give licenses to companies like open ai licenses to companies like open alto licenses to companies like open a! to be able to carry out a! al to be able to carry out a! research, and if they don't live up to those standards, that he wants a regulator to take those licenses away. that is what he is saying and many democrats and republicans agreed. some republicans want laws to make it easier for open ai laws to make it easier for open alto laws to make it easier for open a! to be sued byjust general al to be sued byjust general members of the public, but it did feel like a bit of a moment, and after this hearing, i think we can be pretty confident there is going to be some kind of new regulator established in the us, i am

sure there will be a new regulator in the eu and probably in the uk as well. james clayton there in san francisco. let's go live to seattle to speak to margaret mitchell who is the chief ethics scientist at hugging face, a company where she creates protocols for ethical a! research. thank you forjoining us on bbc news today, margaret. everyone at the hearing seems to be on the same page. this is powerful tech that needs regulation. but i can't help but wonder if those regulators are already too late? will they be playing catch up. regulators are already playing catch up. there is already technology out there that has really problematic things in place. in some ways, the genie is out of the bottle, however there is a lot more coming in a lot more that can be done. all isn't hopeless, and i was actually really heartened by a lot of the rhetoric on the hill today.

because it did well aligned with a lot of the ethical ai proposals that have come out, also the eu i act, by the way. the genie is somewhat out of the bottle is in there are serious issues already happening now, but there is a lot more potentially problematic that could happen that regulatory agencies and other kinds of bodies just might give us more detail if you will. might give us more detail if ou will. ~ . ., , you will. what are those big questions — you will. what are those big questions that _ you will. what are those big questions that we _ you will. what are those big questions that we need - you will. what are those big questions that we need to l questions that we need to tackle right now, and also, what are those big questions going to be in the future? right. this came up in the hearing, but one of the questions around data. the fact is that these models that were under discussion today or yesterday in england time require vast amounts of training data which is straight from the web and done without consent, done without compensation. it is done often times in violation of licenses

or it is not clear what the licenses are so it could be in violation, and this is doing things like taking away the rights of artists. generative ai technology that creates images or even technology that generates articles taking the work of journalists generates articles taking the work ofjournalists like yourself. so this is already happening today. in yourself. so this is already happening today.- yourself. so this is already happening today. in the future, the concern _ happening today. in the future, the concern must _ happening today. in the future, the concern must be _ happening today. in the future, the concern must be that - happening today. in the future, the concern must be that this l the concern must be that this intelligence gets too powerful, and i wonder if there is any sense that we need to put some limits on where we take it? let's not go to certain places. yes, that is a really interesting idea, and it is one that i don't inveigh quite touched on at the hearing, i do think it is important to think about the fact that we are nearing a place where people are starting to talk about artificial general intelligence and the idea that these systems might become sentimental conscious in these kind of things. whether or not you

believe in that, it is important to think about what other pieces that would be in place for people to begin believing that, and maybe that is not something we want to do. thinking ahead about the perception of the technology as well as how it can affect people, and putting in place constraints where maybe there is some boundaries on the power of the technology as it is deployed to the general public. 0k, margaret mitchell with some answers to the big questions which face us right now. thank you very much forjoining us today. you very much for “oining us toda . ., ~ ,, let's get some of the day's other news now. police in new zealand say they are treating the fire at a hostel in wellington as suspicious and confirm there was an earlier fire at the building hours before. at least six people were killed in the blaze, with a number of others unaccounted for. some residentsjumped out of windows to safety, while others were rescued from the roof. ukraine says it shot down hypersonic missiles

amid an "exceptionally dense" barrage fired at kyiv on tuesday. kyiv said air defences intercepted the hypersonic missiles, which russia has claimed can overcome all existing air defence systems. they were among 18 missiles of different types fired at the city in a short space of time. the us state of north carolina has passed legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. it comes after the state's republican—controlled general assembly overrode a veto from the democratic governor. the law bans abortions after the first trimester, except in cases of rape, incest, life—limiting fatal anomalies and medical emergencies. the car—making giant behind the vauxhall brand in the uk has urged the government to renegotiate part of the brexit trade agreement, warning that otherwise there could be "significantjob losses" in its british plants. the company, stella ntis,

which also controls fiat, peugeot and citroen, says that it will struggle to meet brexit trade rules on electric car parts. president biden is cutting short a planned tour of asia this week as he continues negotiations to avoid a debt default by the us government next month. the president held emergency talks at the white house with congressional leaders earlier, including republican house speaker kevin mccarthy. it ended with cautious optimism among the leaders who are hopeful a deal to raise the us debt ceiling is within reach. on monday, the us treasury secretary, janet yellen, warned again that the us could run out of money byjunei if congress fails to raise or suspend the debt ceiling. policy between the parties should not stop congress from avoiding default. i made clear against they's meeting that default is not an option.

america pays its debts, pays it spills and they will be plenty of time to debate the policy differences. but the country has never defaulted on our debt, and we never will. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal has more from the white house. the meeting lasted for more than an hour and, like last week, both sides came out and gave their version of events. the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, and the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, struck a more optimistic tone. they weren't as bitter as last time. they had both accused the president of not negotiating and not compromising. the democrats had come out, including chuck schumer, and accused the republicans of not taking default off the table, using it as a negotiating tactic. i put to kevin mccarthy if they had taken default off the table this time. he sidestepped the question, he pointed to the bill that the bill the house republicans tried to pass, but he did say that neither

side wants default. that was actually that had progressed in this meeting. he was also asked about how the world is looking at america right now, and if it does default, what the global implications would be. look, i think america is the number one economy in the world, and when we get done with these negotiations, america's economy will be stronger because it will make the american economy stronger put more people back to work lifting the amount of poverty and lowering energy costs, and more importantly, curving our spending from being runaway. as the world looks around and look back in america saying we were spending too much, they won't be able to say that when we're done. we all agreed that default is not an acceptable option and must be avoided. and we all agreed that over the next few weeks we have to proceed with the fierce urgency of now in order to make sure we can reach that bipartisan, commonsense, common—ground agreement so that we can protect the health, the safety and economic well being

of the american people. there is huge pressure to get this done because president biden is off to japan tomorrow. he was then due to go to australia and papua new guinea, but now has cut short that trip in order to get this over the line, and i did ask mccarthy and mcconnell if they put pressure on mr biden to cut short that trip and if, therefore, the us was neglecting its foreign obligations because they just can't find a solution. they do not answer the question, but mr mccarthy did say it is up to the president as to what he wants to do with his schedule. there are still some sticking points to get through with the negotiations, but bear in mind when they do reach a compromise that will probably take a week for it to get through congress, so time is ticking for the congressional leaders to get this through. nomia iqbal in washington. former uk prime minister liz truss is in taiwan for a five—day visit. the former leader made a personal plea for her successor, rishi sunak, to brand china as a "threat" to uk security.

speaking in taipei, liz truss said she believes taiwan is a core interest to europe and compared tensions of china and taiwan to the russian invasion of ukraine. china sees self—ruled taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under beijing's control. let's have a listen to what she had to say. she to what she had to say. is continuing her discussions she is continuing her discussions in taipei. fix, discussions in taipei. blockade or an invasion of taiwan would undermine freedom and democracy in europejust as and democracy in europejust as a russian invasion of ukraine, a russian invasion of ukraine, a successful�*s a successful domination of ukraine would undermine freedom and democracy in the pacific. you only need to look at recent statements by a european chinese diplomat

repudiating the independent existence of the baltic states to see that these two theatres are inextricably linked. our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes is in manila for us. what kind of reception did ms truss get in taiwan? a very warm one, it is unusual for taiwan to get high—level visit albeit from former prime minister �*s, last time i former prime minister visited taiwan was margaret thatcher back in 1993 or 1994, it's was margaret thatcher back in 1993 01’1994, it's been a was margaret thatcher back in 1993 or 1994, it's been a long time since a former uk primer stability taiwan and so will be welcomed there is a sign of support, she has been given a very warm welcome she had a meeting with the taiwanese foreign minister when she he welcomed her to taiwan, but this was a very hard—line speech that she made. in which

she described china is not only a threat to taiwan but a threat to the whole of the free and democratic world, and among certain people in taiwan and this region, there will be some disquiet at the way she has reinvented herself as very much a hard—line china hawk, and is calling for deep disengagement from china notjust by taiwan but the whole of this region and in effect the whole of the free, democratic world. some of the things she talked about, disengaging on china on all sorts of levels, building an economic nato, a network of liberty around the world, dividing the world between the hard—line authoritarian regimes ha rd—line authoritarian regimes of hard—line authoritarian regimes of china and russia, iran and north korea and the rest of the world. a lot of people will be somewhat disquieted by that depiction of the future. thank ou ve depiction of the future. thank you very much- _ around the world and across

the uk, this is bbc news. laura and kirsty goodchard at the university of east anglia speaking publicly for the first time about the impact of the loss of smell and distorted smell has had on their lives. this photo was taken on laura's 18th birthday they couldn't eat their roast dinner because it tasted rotten. when your diet is affected and you can't eat healthy balanced food, you can't have your normal routine, it ends up with you feeling quite fatigued, quite malnourished and you lose concentration. so it starts dispensing a scent. this rehabilitation device demonstrated at the uea today helps train sufferers to smell again. the sisters were concerned they would spend the rest of their lives without their sense of smell but after 18 months, it returned. definitely pleased to have my smell and taste back. it feels amazing, i don't think i quite appreciated how much i loved food and cooking

and going out to restaurants. you're live with bbc news. the national assembly in ecuador has begun an impeachment trial against president guillermo lasso, who has been accused of embezzling funds from public companies. the president told the legislature that all information shows he is totally and unquestionably innocent. he accused the left—wing opposition of creating a fictitious and useless conflict. joining me now is mimi swaby from bbc world service. what more can you tell us? putting forward his defence on tuesday, president macro unmaintained he had no proof that these allegations benefited him in any way, he said scandals were a shock to him and orchestrated against him and orchestrated against him and orchestrated against him and it was a politically motivated move. many were

politicians for the left—wing president who him self has been charged with corruption and is in exile in belgium. opposition put forward their campaigns and ideas to the assembly starting yesterday on tuesday but it is unclear whether they will get the two—thirds majority needed to impeach the president. the assembly obtained 88 votes for assembly obtained 88 votes for a further division process they need four boats 92 out of 137 members to impeach the president. these 137 members have ten minutes to put forward their ideas, that will take a long time. unclear whether the final day will be before saturday for the boat but is hope this will be the case, if guillermo lasso dos sluices cases vice president stepped in for him but it's becoming increasingly likely guillermo lasso will call the 2—way murder, the two we death, a

constitutional quirk in the ecuadorian government system that allows the president to dissolve parliament and call an early election. if he does this he will govern by decree, under the constitutional court for six months before the new elections occurs to be some lawmakers have said in dissolution will be completely unconstitutional and they were not back that, but the government and government allies many of his supporters, hundreds are outside the parliament yesterday they are questioning the legitimacy of this process. two very polarised camps in the political turmoil could not come at a worse time for ecuador as the country is experiencing its most severe security crisis for decades, in its history even, with murders and violent rates spiking across the country. —— violence rates. landlords in england will be

banned from evicting tenants without a justification as part of changes to the private rental sector. the government says the once—in—a—generation reforms will benefit 11 million tenants, but labour says they don't address problems in what it calls the wild west rental market. here's our political correspondentjonathan blake. renting is a way of life for anthony, the former police officer and his beloved cat living in their third property forfour living in their third property for four years. living in their third property forfouryears. he living in their third property forfour years. he says living in their third property for four years. he says the uncertainty that comes with the tenant can be a strain. i love the british way of life, i think in the private sector you can stop from getting that because you appen down moving from one house to another. the government has long promised changes designed to bring more stability to the rental sector in england, landlords will be banned from evicting tenants withoutjustification, and what without justification, and what ministers withoutjustification, and what ministers described as a once

in a generation overhaul copy this is a fair deal for renters and make sure they can be protected from the very small minority of rogue landlords, who use the threat of no fault of action to silence those tenants who want to complain about poor conditions, or to intimidate some tenants into accepting extortionate rent rises. �* ., accepting extortionate rent rises. ., ., ., , rises. but for those landlords the overwhelming _ rises. but for those landlords the overwhelming majority, l rises. but for those landlords i the overwhelming majority, who very valuable service, the bill is also a good thing. the renters _ is also a good thing. the renters reform _ is also a good thing. the renters reform bill- is also a good thing. the renters reform bill aims| is also a good thing. the renters reform bill aims to guarantee safer, better quality homes with a decent home standard, make it illegalfor landlords to ban outright tenants on benefits for those with children, and enable landlords to evict antisocial tenants or those in rent arrears more easily. landlords do not go _ arrears more easily. landlords do not go around _ arrears more easily. landlords do not go around evicting - do not go around evicting tenants willy—nilly, we want

them to have a great experience while they are with us but obviously things go wrong, in those situations, it is right landlords can rely on a system fit for purpose.— fit for purpose. labour say the chan . es fit for purpose. labour say the changes have _ fit for purpose. labour say the changes have taken _ fit for purpose. labour say the changes have taken too - fit for purpose. labour say the changes have taken too long, | changes have taken too long, and are promising a host of new rights for tenants if they came to power. housing campaigners have broadly welcomed the changes, but warn against leaving loopholes in the new laws that could still see renters unfairly evicted. the right to request a pit is another promised change but four years since the government pledged to ban no fault evictions the promised improvements to the private rental sector for anthony and millions like him can't come soon enough.— millions like him can't come soon enough. because you are alwa s soon enough. because you are always renting _ soon enough. because you are always renting property - soon enough. because you are always renting property of- always renting property of another person there is so much vulnerable and insecurity from monday to the net there are certain rights there but they don't go far enough. jonathan blake, bbc news.

the cannes film festival has kicked off in france with the premiere of johnny depp's new film. the star was greeted by fans and signed autographs before he took to the world—famous red carpet. depp plays kings louis xvi in the french language film jon du barry. it's his first major role since his highly publicised trial with his ex—wife amber heard. michael douglas, accompanied by his wife catherine zeta—jones and their daughter also attended the opening ceremony. the 78—year—old actor was there to receive an honorary palm door which is cannes' top honour. this means so much of to me because there are hundreds of film festivals all around the world, but there is only one cannes, and suddenly 60,76

years old, i am even older than the festival. so i want to thank all of the filmmakers that i worked with over the years. all of the film crews, the hundreds and hundreds of people that did such great job in their departments and all thejoy, thejoy and happiness that we had working together. and i also want to say hello to my wife and to thank her and my daughter, caris, who are with us tonight to thank you for your love, your support. speaks french. and merci beaucoup. michael douglas there. and before we go, we started on al and ended with cannes. now, let's put them together. tom hanks has said he thinks his career could carry

on after his death thanks to artificial intelligence. the 66—year—old oscar winner told the adam buxton podcast that the technology could be used to recreate his image, meaning he could appear in movies "from now until kingdom come." but hanks acknowledged that al posed artistic and legal challenges. now, this is pretty sensational footage from the island of oahu in hawaii. it shows the moment a shark attacked a man who was fishing in his kayak. scott haraguchi amazingly emerged from the incident unscathed. he later posted the video of what happened on social media. he said he thought the animal was a turtle, before realising it was something much more sinister.

you will find lots more detail about the stories we're covering on our website. just head to bbc.com/news — or use the bbc news app. you can reach me on social media — i'm @tadthnright. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. looks like high pressure will continue to bring a lot of fine and settled weather to the country for the rest of this week and into the weekend. temperatures will be climbing slightly, particularly where we have the sunshine. that said, there'll still be a few showers around and outbreaks of rain around the area of high pressure. so, this weather front will be bringing some wet weather to the north of scotland throughout the day on wednesday. now, the blue tinge is fading away for wednesday. we're starting to import that yellow and orange colour, so, the temperature's climbing a little bit. so in the sunny spots, it'll feel very pleasant through the afternoon, but it starts off chilly. lots of sunshine. then the clouds build again. showers, this time, affecting the southern half of britain. further north, it'll be dry with some sunshine. but north highlands, the northern isles, some

heavy and persistent rain here with a stronger breeze, feeling quite cool. but elsewhere again, it's the mid to high teens. and then through wednesday night, the showers fade away. many places will be dry. we'll see variable amounts of cloud around, probably more cloud around, i think, wednesday night than what we've had the recent night. so, that should stop temperatures in falling much below five to nine celsius. so, a little bit milder. so, here's the picture for thursday. high pressure bringing a lot of dry weather for most. this weather front, though, another weather front will start to push into western scotland and northern ireland through the day. so here, cloudier, breezy with some splashes of rain east in scotland, england and wales. the best of the sunny spells, though we will see some showers developing across southern and eastern england and we could see more cloud around, i think, into the afternoon. temperature wise, though, in the brightest spots, again, the high teens, the mid—teens, though, further north. that weather front pushes its way eastwards to bring a band of cloud and showers across england and wales for friday. so, a bit ofa mixed bag, i think, to end the working week. some sunny spells

around, variable cloud, but also some showers. thanks to this weakening weather front, particularly across england and wales, and the odd one could be on the heavy side. in the sunshine, then temperatures again 17 or 18 degrees, but with more cloud around and i think it won't be quite as warm on friday than what we'll see on thursday. into the weekend with high pressure dominating the scene for most. and it's going to be mainly dry, and settled once again with some good sunny spells. but weather fronts flirting with the north of the uk will, at times, bring thicker cloud, maybe some spots of rain to scotland and northern ireland. best of the sunshine, england and wales. and we could be into the low 20s in warmer spots.

live from london, this is bbc news. an industry warning: one of the world's biggest car makers calls on the british government to review its eu trade deal. as a potential us debt default creeps closer, president biden meets congressional leaders to find a way out. policy differences between the parties should not stop congress from avoiding default. with british supermarket prices spiralling fast, rishi sunak promises more seasonal visas for farming.

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