ChatGPT Owner on AI: ‘A Race America Can and Must Win’

Competitiveness and Security

“Chips, data, energy, and talent are the keys to winning on AI — and this is a race America can and must win,” states the blueprint, warning that a failure to do so will allow Chinese-backed projects to strengthen the superpower’s own position. Previous studies have suggested that China is outpacing US in AI use in the workplace, for example.

It’s the relationship between competitiveness and security that seems to be top of the agenda for OpenAI.

“We believe that making sure AI benefits the most people possible means enabling AI through common-sense rules aimed at protecting people from  actual harms, and building democratic AI shaped by the values the US has always stood for.” – OpenAI

It outlines three ways in which the US industry can thrive and, at the same time, blunt the threat from overseas:

• [Encouraging] a free market promoting free and fair competition that drives innovation
• Freedom for developers and users to work with and direct our tools as they see fit, in
  exchange for following clear, common-sense standards that help keep AI safe for
  everyone, and being held accountable when they don’t
• Preventing government use of AI tools to amass power and control their citizens, or to
  threaten or coerce other states

Together with setting confidence-building ground rules for the industry to abide by and investing heavily in infrastructure, the blueprint suggests that these tenets will ensure AI that is “built on a foundation of the democratic values the US has always stood for”.