Sam Altman, the Chief Executive Officer of OpenAI, the firm best known for its ChatGPT AI-enabled chatbot product, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. Mr. Altman said the discussion included “the need to think about global regulation to make sure we prevent some of the downsides [of AI] from happening” to an audience at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi.
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Mr. Altman was reiterating themes that he is discussing throughout his packed week-long international tour, with previous engagements in Israel and the United Arab Emirates. “It really is amazing to watch what’s happening in India, with the embrace of AI,” Mr. Altman said. “I used to work at [startup incubator] YCombinator, and we were always amazed and quite grateful to the quality of Indian startups,” Mr. Altman added.
