“It has seemed to me for a long time it might be better if building AGI were a government project,” Sam Altman publicly mused this past Saturday evening.
The future was on everyone’s mind as the OpenAI CEO answered questions about OpenAI’s new contract with the United States Department of Defense. But Altman also speculated on the future shape of the AI industry itself, and even the possibility of the government “nationalizing” private AI companies into a public project, admitting more than once he’s wondered what would happen…

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