OpenAI's CFO believes that Donald Trump could be the "President of the AI generation" because he will take office at a time when the critical infrastructure for developing General Artificial Intelligence is being built.
According to Reuters, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Sarah Friah said that US President-elect Donald Trump could be the "President of the AI generation" because he will take office at a time when the important infrastructure for developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is built.
“He will be right there at the beginning, maybe even when we get to things like AGI,” Friah said on November 10, referring to automated systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks.
She also downplayed public threats against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, from Elon Musk — now one of Trump's closest advisers.
Responding to a question from Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni in an interview at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York, Ms. Friah said of the threats from Musk: "We trust him... as a competitor, [he] will put the national interest first and compete appropriately."
Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI, has publicly opposed a major corporate restructuring of OpenAI that would remove control of the nonprofit's board of directors.
He now runs xAI, a competitor to OpenAI, and has become a close adviser to Mr. Trump’s transition team.
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen him, along with former Republican presidential candidate and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead a task force aimed at cutting government spending and regulations.
Ms. Friar, who previously led the social media company Nextdoor, joined OpenAI six months ago as its first CFO. She said the company has seen a huge demand for Sora, its video creation tool that launched this week.
Account creation using Sora has been paused, and Ms. Friar did not give a specific timeline for when accounts would be available again.
“Part of that is because we need to have the capacity, but also because we want to be cautious… Right now, this is only available to a very small group of people, because we want to listen and learn,” she said.
Friar added that the company is taking a different approach to releasing Sora than ChatGPT. “There are areas where we’re going to go a little slower to make sure that ‘safety first.’”
She also predicts there will be more AI assistants (software that performs automated tasks on behalf of users) by 2025, with underlying models that have better reasoning capabilities.
“I think we’re going to see a lot of change in the next year in AI assistants,” she said. “People will be surprised at how fast this technology is moving.”
OpenAI is also working on a new dynamic with Microsoft — its largest investor and technology partner.
“We think about it… in terms of supporting each other’s growth, but also recognizing that diversification is also a good thing, in terms of the overall growth of the industry,” Friar said.
Despite controversy over its governance restructuring and the recent departure of several executives, OpenAI has continued to expand rapidly, she said.
Friar said the company has seen a “re-acceleration” in ChatGPT’s user growth. The AI tool’s user base has jumped from 200 million in August to 300 million today, thanks to the introduction of new inference models like o1./.
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