OpenAI's Altman confident Trump will keep US in AI lead
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Washington: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (pictured)yesterday expressed confidence that US President elect Donald Trump s administration would support the art...
Washington: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (pictured)yesterday expressed confidence that US President-elect Donald Trump's administration would support the artificial intelligence sector to ensure the United States and its allies continue to lead it.
Speaking to conservative US broadcaster Fox News yesterday, 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."