Sam Altman has been making the rounds in Europe, conversing with governmental authorities and startup communities on the subject of AI regulation. His tour has taken him to Station F in Paris, France, where he was recently featured in a Q&A session with local entrepreneurs.
During the session, Sam Altman discussed various topics related to AI, including why he considers the current state of Artificial Intelligence to be quite exciting. He believes AI is remarkable in its ability to improve education, automatically carry out certain tasks for creators and developers, and boost productivity in generalized fields.
Altman also touched on the subject of regulation, a topic of conversation he engaged with France’s President Emmanuel Macron days prior. When asked about it in Paris, Altman made mention of the importance of sustaining a consistent balance between protection and nourishing any promising technology.
In addition to his rational views on the potential of AI to help humans and the importance of legal flexibility, Altman appeared as a strict optimist who believes AI can ultimately be a great benefit to human kind. At his Q&A session, he referenced the ability of AI models to help solve the problem of climate change, via technological breakthroughs such as nuclear fusion.
Open AI is Sam’s company, founded in December 2015, based in San Francisco, California with its research laboratory in Redmond, WA. The company is devoted to creating an ethical, safe, and tear-free AI. OpenAI is dedicated to their mission of creating an AI system that is so beneficial to humanity that it levels up humanity itself. Their vision is to provide everyone access to AI capabilities that will enable an explosion of creative potential.
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur, investor and businessman. He was the president of Y Combinator from 2014 to February 2020, and is the current chief executive officer of the openAI non-profit research company. Altman is invested in many technology firms, including Airbnb, Instacart, and Stripe, and he co-led Airbnb’s Series B in 2009. He was a founding board member of reddit, and a former partner at Citi Ventures.
