OPENAI SHARES ITS FIVE-PILLAR BLUEPRINT FOR BUILDING AI INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE U.S. Opening Lines Source: https://www.americancityandcounty.com/, Ryan Kushner, First published 14th November 2024 Numerous local governments have taken huge strides in just the past year to embrace emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology, whether applying it to streamline government tasks or simply establishing guidelines for its usage. But OpenAI believes the technology’s potential is bigger. The creator of ChatGPT and one of the leading purveyors of AI, OpenAI has shared what it described as its blueprint for building AI infrastructure in the U.S.—and federal, state and local community buy-in for the plan is key. The blueprint, published Nov. 13, includes five “ambitious” pillars that could reshape American cities and counties. In an interview with the Center for Strategic & International Studies Wednesday, OpenAI VP of Global Affairs Chris Lehane likened the AI company’s five pillars to major U.S. infrastructure initiatives such as the National Highway Act of 1956 and Telco Act of 1996. “We need to start to think big and act big in the same way that we have done in the past,” Lehane said. The influential company’s five pillars of building AI infrastructure included the following: The development of AI economic zones. The first pillar envisions federal and state initiatives to “speed 7 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 05, ISSUE 11
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