Prominent investor Marc Andreessen recently met with Biden administration staff to discuss how they are working closely with two or three large AI companies to control AI and control other companies through burdensome regulation. He said it gave the impression that he wanted to shut him out.
Although Andreessen did not name OpenAI, it was implied that OpenAI would have been a beneficiary of this alleged effort. But OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Andreessen's comments as a “conspiracy theory” on his podcast with Bari Weiss this week.
“So we were in the same room with them and other companies and the government and we said, “Here's our conspiracy theory, we're going to allow only a few companies to build AI, and then you It was never like, “We have to do it.'' What we say. ’ That never happens,” Altman said.
In any case, Altman and other leaders of big tech companies are rapidly leaving the Biden administration and contributing millions of dollars to President Trump's inaugural fund.