Forbes November 26, 2024
As the next administration prepares to take office — with Elon Musk at Trump’s side — OpenAI is busy touting its AI vision in Washington. On November 13, the company released an AI infrastructure blueprint designed to bolster government support for building the physical structures AI-enabled software relies on.
In promoting the blueprint, OpenAI’s head of global policy Chris Lehane said he believes the contemporary analog to “guns, germs, and steel” is “chips, data, and energy.” Lehane has not been shy about exploiting the bipartisan agreement on “beating” China: “If one thing really galvanizes DC [and] the political system, it is the imperative of making sure the US prevails over China,” he said, adding that the United States’ leadership in...