Sam Altman emphasized how important the American AI efforts are not “slowed down” by poorly checked regulations, since the Openai CEO testified for the first time in the Capitol Hill on Thursday and is largely friendly and informative of an audience.
The hearing that focused on winning the race against China to dominate the AI worldwide was Altman’s first appearance since his top -class testimony in May 2023, which brought him to the global stage and only triggered a widespread media reporting six months after the start of chatt.
Altman was conservatively dressed in a dark gray suit, a blue tie and a white shirt and was hardly exposed to enemy questions or setbacks of the US sensors.
In response to Senator Ted Cruz, who asked how close China of US skills in AI, Altman replied: “It is difficult to say how far we are, but I would say not much time.” He said he believed that models from Openaai, Google And others are the “best models in the world”, but added that it requires “reasonable regulation” that “does not slow down” in order to continue to win.
This spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship is uniquely American, continued Altman and emphasized that “none of it is rocket science. We just have to do the things that have worked for so long and don’t make stupid mistakes.”
Oh, what a difference two years. Oldman’s testimony was worlds from its appearance in 2023 when the main focus of the legislator was the security and regulation of AI. At this point in time, Altman himself asked Congress to implement regulations for AI technologies and emphasized the potential risks when they remain deactivated. He proposed the creation of a new federal authority that is responsible for the licensing and examination of AI models, in particular those with skills that could be significant risks.
To be fair, on Thursday, in which Altman from AMD CEO Lisa Su, CoreWeave -CEO Michael Intrator, and AMD -CEO was accompanied Microsoft President Brad Smith was all about the geopolitical missions in today’s KI -era -that is to dominate the race for the global dominance of AI by strengthening the US skills and increasing innovation.
Altman offered the perfect opportunity to expand Open to countriesThe worldwide expansion of its 500 million dollar -Stargate Mega -Color Center Projekt, which the company announced yesterday. The future of artificial general intelligence (AGI), said Altman in his prescribed certificate, “can be almost unimaginably bright, but only if we take concrete steps to ensure that an American version of AI based on democratic values such as freedom and transparency is about an authoritarian.” This is particularly important, he emphasized, as an AI systems, become more capable and people want to use them even more.
The fulfillment of this demand requires “more chips, training data, energy and supercomputers,” he said.
“Infrastructure is fate and we need a lot more of it.”
Some of the questions that were drawn in Altman Big Tech CEOS have received On the Capitol Hill. For example, Senator Amy Klobuchar, who said she had never heard of AI “Hallucinations” (although they have been largely reported since the start of Chatgpt) when Altman said that Openais models are not 100% exactly, “users are intelligent” – ie people understand what they can and what they cannot.
And as Senator Lisa Rochester (D-DEL) Altman, slightly questioned over the time of Openai Efforts to restructure its non -profit businessAltman said that he was grateful for the chance to explain a “complicated thing that was illustrated in my opinion incorrectly.” The company’s plan was always in having a robust non -profit organization. He added that we restructure the profit-oriented arm as a public performance society with the same mission, “enable it to increase the capital that is necessary to provide these tools and services at quality and availability level where people you want to use, but still remain of our mission.”
However, there was a remarkable absence of references to the security of AI in Altman’s testimony, which was in strong contrast to his 2023 comments in which the AI security mentioned dozens of times.
However, Openaai has turned beyond the recognition of the KI research laboratory, which broke into public awareness with the Chatgpt debut. By last summer, half of the Openai employees who once concentrated on the long-term risk of overpowering AI had left the company, including co-founders and chief scientists Ilya Sutskever. Almost 20% of the company is now working on sale. And only yesterday, Instacart CEO FIDJI Simo came up by applications as CEO and supervised the company’s product offers and business companies.
“Openai is not a normal company and it will never be,” said Altman in his prescribed certificate. But it sounded perfectly assignable by winning with an optimistic personal anecdote about growing up in St. Louis and his first Mac computer at the age of eight, which he described as a “dividing line” in his life.
“I can draw a straight line from this to the foundation of Openaai,” he said to the group of senators. “I am a child of the internet revolution and am proud to be one of the many parents of the AI revolution.” During a recent visit to St. Louis, he recalled that he had passed his old house and had looked into the window on the top floor.
“The light was on, and I thought, hopefully a child who stayed up late in the evening remained with chatt and find out how he or she will start the next company, and whatever the next one is after AI will happen here too. For me, this is the magic of this country.”
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