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It's been quite a while since ChatGPT and DALL-E creator OpenAI entertained us with their arrogant and condescending statements, showcasing their blatant disregard for human creators, however, their latest proposal addressed to the United States government certainly makes up for all the time we haven't heard from them.
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Dubbed "AI in America: OpenAI's Economic Blueprint," the 15-page document outlines the company's vision for what the US policymakers must do to ensure the artificial intelligence industry flourishes in the country, comparing it to the early days of the automotive industry.
Overflowing with pseudo-patriotism and attempts to appeal to Americans' emotions by labeling their vision as "democratic AI," OpenAI's proposal calls for direct federal intervention to avoid a "state-by-state tangle of roads and rules" – likely referring to the California AI Transparency Act introduced in September 2024, which, among other things, forces AI developers to disclose the data used to train their models – all while stirring fear by repeating over and over that if action isn't taken, the nefarious Chinese Communist Party will beat the US to it.
"The US government can uniquely mobilize and coordinate experts, especially those with access to classified threat intelligence, to work directly with frontier labs on national security-related evaluations and mitigations," the company writes. "In return, these companies would receive preemption from state-by-state regulations on the types of risks that the same national security agencies would handle."
While trying to appeal to the federal branch, OpenAI hasn't overlooked the states – whose pesky regulations hinder the creation of an AI utopia – arguing that Kansas, Texas, or Pennsylvania can also "fill their historical role as laboratories for democracy by supporting experimentation with AI, including by start-ups and smaller AI firms."
The tech giant also urged the government to invest $175 billion and create "AI Economic Zones" and build AI infrastructure such as new solar arrays, wind farms, and nuclear reactors to bolster the current energy capacity. Additionally, the proposal calls for a dramatic increase in federal spending on power and data transmission, along with streamlined approval processes for new lines. OpenAI further doubled down on its fear-mongering about China and fake patriotism by saying that "if the US doesn't move fast to channel these resources into projects that support democratic AI ecosystems around the world, the funds will flow to projects backed and shaped by the CCP."
"We believe that building enough infrastructure is not just vital for ensuring that AI around the world is based on US rather than China-based technology – it's an unmissable opportunity to catalyze a reindustrialization of the US," reads the document. "Successful nations turn resources into competitive advantages. In the AI era, chips, data, energy, and talent are the resources that will underpin continued US leadership, and as with the mass production of the automobile, marshaling these resources will create widespread economic opportunity and reinforce our global competitiveness."
As an icing on the cake, OpenAI called for the government to "assure AI developers that AI models will have the ability to learn from publicly available information, and making more such information available through competition policy and public sector investment." In other words, the world's largest AI developer is now openly asking policymakers to make it easier for them to scrape visual and text data online and feed it into their machines, highlighting once again that such companies have little regard for copyright or whether you want your content – like your Twitter posts or artwork – to be used for AI training.
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