"This is the only way we will be able to keep the trust of the public.” It comes after the AI bot exploded in popularity just after Christmas.

"ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI," said Elon Musk, who was one of the founders of OpenAI before leaving. ChatGPT is free to use at the moment because it is still in its research phase. Sam Altman, OpenAI chief, said previously: "i agree on being close to dangerously strong AI in the sense of an AI that poses e.g. a huge cybersecurity risk. and i think we could get to real AGI in the next decade, so we have to take the risk of that extremely seriously too."