Famed investor Marc Andreessen recently spoke about meetings with Biden administration staff that gave him the impression that they wanted to control AI by working closely with two or three big AI companies, shutting out everyone else through onerous regulations.
Andreessen did not name OpenAI, but it was implied that it would have been a beneficiary of this supposed effort. However, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Andreessen’s comments as “conspiracy theory” in a This week’s podcast with Bari Weiss.
“I mean, we were in a room with them, and with other companies and the administration, but we never thought, ‘Here’s our conspiracy theory, we’re going to make it so that only a few companies can develop AI and then you have to do it.’ what we say.” Never anything like that,” Altman said.
Either way, Altman and other big tech leaders are quickly leaving the Biden administration behind and donating millions to Trump’s inaugural fund.