Altman gives AI show-and-tell to D.C. power players

AXIOS January 31, 2025
Mike Allen

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gave government leaders, policy experts and journalists a sneak peek at coming technology Thursday during an off-the-record demo near Capitol Hill.

Why it matters: The briefing was designed both to show how the U.S. can maximize economic benefits of AI, and to warm D.C. leaders to coming capabilities so they’re less likely to be caught off-guard.

• Referring to new agentic technology that can independently complete tasks in the real world, Altman said: “My intuition would be that … these things are [a] single-digit percent of the economic value we will pass to the U.S. economy.”
• “This is going to be a big, big efficiency gain.”

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