OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: The U.S. needs an AI policy

All right, we’re back. We have a news alert on open AI. Sam Altman. I want to get to Steve Kovac. So he was on Capitol Hill and our cameras were there, too. Yeah, that’s right, Scott. He was coming out of Senator Todd Young’s office just now. He was the Senator Todd Young. He’s a member of an AI task force that was appointed by Senator Chuck Schumer. And this is coming after Sam Altman spent the last few days in the Middle East talking to potential investors and government leaders about raising money and plans for his grand And our mission to create this whole chip network, so to speak, for artificial intelligence are Karen Jim Sloan. She was there on the ground as he came out of the senator’s office. Here’s what he said about that trip. How are you? Tell me who your meeting went. I think it was great. What did you say to Tom Young? We talked about the need for the US to have like a general policy AI leadership in the world if we’re able to deliver all the benefits of these services. Did you talk about your chip? Did you talk about AI chips and whether the United States is going to chips, energy, the whole package of what it takes to be able to deliver AI. Tell me what you said to leaders in the Middle East about AI chip funding. Well, it wasn’t just about AI chip. Sorry, funding is obviously part of it, But there’s like a very complex supply chain. There’s a thing that we’ll need to figure out about how we’re going to do security and policy for this. So it was a it was a conversation like we’ve had in many other countries around the world about what it takes to do this as a global, a global effort. What about here in in the Senate right now they’re trying to get through some kind of AI policy, but do you feel it’s taking too long? And what should be the priority? Well, I that’s one thing we’re asking is is like, what are they thinking about what the priority should be? There’s obviously a lot to do. It’s a complex thing. So but we’ve been, you know, asking for updates on that at meetings. I don’t think we have a view yet when it’ll happen exactly what it looked like. Have they given you any updates? They don’t. I mean, obviously they don’t say like it’ll happen like exactly this on this time. So Scott Altman there talking about his trip to the Middle East. And you might remember a few weeks ago, we got that headline, that report saying he was looking to raise trillions of dollars for whatever these ambitions are to make artificial intelligence more powerful and capable. But like he just told our Karen there, Karen James Slim there, he also said it’s about more than that enormous amounts of energy is going to be required to run these data centers and really achieve the vision he’s thinking of. And then on the legislation front or the regulatory front, also talking about meeting with lawmakers there. As we know he was on Capitol Hill about a year ago talking about what his view for AI regulation should look like. Nothing has happened for then. And also our Congress has been really slow to act on, you know, previous generations of technology like social media and so forth. So not a lot of regulatory action going on there. Though I will mention Democrat Adam Schiff, who’s running for Senate in California. He’s he’s in Congress now, did put out a bill yesterday saying that these companies should disclose if they’re training their AI models on copyrighted data. But some interesting stuff there from Sam Altman about what he’s talking to leaders around the world about Scott.