He said it! "It has seemed to me for a long time it might be better if building AGI were a government project," Sam Altman said this week. While he may not think it's likely, “I do think a close partnership between governments and the companies building this technology is super important.”
Trump's War Department even threatened a kind of "soft nationalization" against Anthropic, according to Fortune magazine's AI editor, by suggesting they'd invoke 1950's "Defense Protection Act" to force Anthropic to accept the government's terms for military contracts.
Altman weighs in - along with OpenAI's Head of National Security Partnerships - actually fielding live questions from Twitter users at one point. It proves the community of AI users has a role to play - by their software choices, but also by engaging in all the thoughtful discussions that are happening.
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