Speaking to conservative US broadcaster Fox News on Sunday, Altman said AI technology needed massive infrastructure support and that he believed Trump would be good at providing it.
"We need to build that here and we need to be able to have the best AI infrastructure in the world to be able to lead with the technology and the capabilities," he said.
"I believe President-elect Trump will be very good at that."
Altman was responding to a question on the United States' competition with China on AI, adding "we very much believe that the United States and our allies need to lead this."
The infrastructure that AI technology requires includes huge amounts of electricity, as well as large data centers and technological support in the form of access to advanced semiconductors and computer chips.
Altman also said the US Congress needs to pass legislation that erects safeguards for the use of artificial intelligence.
"I think, yes. At some point, when it is, what form it should be, I don't know when that will happen," he said, responding to a question.
"I think it should be a question for society. Like, it should not be OpenAI gets to decide on its own how ChatGPT or how the technology in general is used or not used."
OpenAI has seen its profile skyrocket over recent years as it has become a star player in the growing field of artificial intelligence.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but has since left it, has asked a US court to stop the company from converting into a for-profit enterprise, US media reported on Saturday.
Elon Musk asks US court to block OpenAi's for-profit conversion
Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 -
Elon Musk has again asked a US court to stop ChatGPT-maker OpenAI from converting into a for-profit enterprise, CNBC reported Saturday.
Attorneys representing the billionaire and his AI startup, xAI, filed the injunction Friday, the financial news site reported.
The injunction also requests that OpenAI be stopped from allegedly barring its investors from funding competing companies.
The move is the latest development in a business feud between OpenAI and Musk, who co-founded the group in 2015 but has since left.
OpenAI has seen its profile skyrocket over recent years as it has become a star player in the growing field of artificial intelligence.
Musk has alleged that OpenAI bars its investors from making investments in rivals -- which would put his own startup at a disadvantage in a sector where billions of dollars are at stake.
OpenAI was founded as a non-profit and has since switched to a "capped" for-profit enterprise.
It is currently seeking to become a for-profit public benefit corporation, which could attract more investment.
After leaving in 2018, Musk said he was uncomfortable with the profit-driven direction the company was taking under the stewardship of CEO Sam Altman.
He filed a lawsuit against the company in March, accusing it of breaking its original non-profit mission to make AI research available to all.
OpenAI argues that Musk's lawsuit, as well as his embrace of open source development for AI, is little more than a case of sour grapes after leaving the company.
Major Canadian media sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions
Ottawa (AFP) Nov 29, 2024 -
Canada's biggest news organizations on Friday sued OpenAI, accusing it of using their articles without permission to help train its artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in a case that could cost the American company billions.
Media including The Globe and Mail newspaper and public broadcaster CBC accused OpenAI of breaching copyrights by "scraping large swaths of content" and profiting from the use of this content, according to a statement.
This was done without the permission of or compensation for the news organizations, which are seeking Can$20,000 (US$14,700) per article they claim was illegally scraped and used to train ChatGPT.
This could put the total value of the claim in the billions of dollars.
"Journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI using other companies' journalism for their own commercial gain is not. It's illegal," the coalition said.
An OpenAI spokesperson responded to the lawsuit saying that its chatbox is trained on publicly available data "grounded in fair use and related international copyright principles that are fair for creators and support innovation."
The company also collaborates with news publishers, the spokesperson added.
The lawsuit is the first by Canadian media against OpenAI.
The organizations -- which also include Postmedia, The Canadian Press and Torstar, the parent of the Toronto Star newspaper, according to legal documents -- are seeking an injunction to stop the San Francisco-based company's ongoing and future "unauthorized misappropriation" of their work.
"We will not stand by while tech companies steal our content," Torstar chief executive Neil Oliver reportedly wrote in a memo to staff shortly after the court documents were filed.
"While we embrace the opportunities that technological innovation can bring, all participants must follow the law, and any use of our intellectual property must be on fair terms," he said.
Generative artificial intelligence caught the world's attention with OpenAI's release of ChatGPT in late 2022.
The technology can produce videos, pictures or written works quickly, drawing from available content to answer demands expressed in everyday language.
While elating some users, it has aroused ire in authors, artists and others who believe their creations are being absorbed without them being asked or compensated.
Publications such as the New York Times have filed lawsuits to defend their content, while some news organizations have opted to make licensing deals.
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