WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today wrote to CEOs of seven major tech companies-Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. and Google; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft; Even Spiegel, CEO of Snap Inc.; and Elon Musk, CEO of xAI-urging details on how the companies will protect their users from manipulation and exploitation if the companies plan to integrate advertising into their AI chatbots. On January 16, OpenAI announced that it will begin testing advertising in its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Users deserve transparency about tech companies' plans, if any, to incorporate advertisin...