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On the evening of January 13, OpenAI officially released a 16-page " OpenAI's Economic Blueprint" economic blueprint report outlines recommendations on how the United States can maximize the advantages of AI, strengthen security, and promote economic growth.
OpenAI is a company dedicated to making artificial intelligence (AI) work for the benefit of everyone, writes OpenAI Vice President Chris Lehane. Their mission is to enable AI to maximize the benefit of humanity by helping solve complex problems. These issues include improving the quality of medical care and education, accelerating scientific discovery, improving public services and improving productivity.
Currently, OpenAI’s tools have been used by more than 300 million people around the world, and have helped 3 million developers create, discover and innovate. These tools are used to:
•Accelerate the development of life-saving medical treatments;
•Advance scientific research conducted by American laboratories;
•Helping teachers create personalized lesson plans, engage more with students and safely introduce AI into the classroom;
•Protect the U.S. military from drone attacks;
• Unlock new creative forms and increase the accessibility of artistic creation;
• Improve state and local Efficiency;
OpenAI emphasizes that the United States needs to act now to maximize the potential of AI while minimizing its harm. AI is an extremely powerful technology and cannot be controlled by dictators. At the same time, the economic opportunities brought about by AI cannot be missed. By building the infrastructure needed, the new jobs and growth AI can bring are just around the corner.
As CEO Sam Altman writes, AI will help future generations do many things that are impossible today. The future is no longer far away, and an era in which everyone's life is better than today is coming.
To achieve shared prosperity, OpenAI hopes to work with shapers to ensure that the benefits of AI are shared responsibly and equitably. They also emphasized entrepreneurship and personal freedom as core to the U.S. innovation ecosystem.
Among them, OpenAI puts forward a perspective on how the economic potential of AI technology can drive the reindustrialization of the United States. Chris Lehane emphasized that if AI developers and companies can correctly respond to current technological opportunities, the broad economic benefits brought by AI will help the United States achieve economic re-industrialization.
Historically, the United States has played a key role in major technological changes many times. Chris Lehane gave an example of the rise of the automobile industry: Although the automobile was not invented in the United States, the United States stimulated the potential of this new technology through cooperation between the public and private sectors, achieving comprehensive benefits from economy to safety. In the UK, the development of the industry was restricted by the 1865 "Red Flag Act" (which required people to walk with a flag in front of cars and limited car speeds to no more than 4 mph).
The US approach was radically different, blending private sector innovation vision with public sector foresight, ultimately making it the center of the world's automotive industry. Mass-producing affordable cars and building a nationwide highway system not only solves public safety issues but also unlocks industrial potential.
OpenAI presents a perspective on how the economic potential of AI technology can drive the reindustrialization of the United States. Chris Lehane also emphasized that if AI developers and companies can correctly respond to current technological opportunities, the broad economic benefits brought by AI will help the United States achieve economic re-industrialization.
Historically, the United States has played a key role in major technological changes many times. An example is given of the rise of the automobile industry: Although the automobile was not invented in the United States, the United States, through public and private sector cooperation, has stimulated the potential of this new technology and achieved comprehensive benefits from economy to safety. In the UK, the development of the industry was restricted by the "Red Flag Act" of 1865, which required people to walk with a flag in front of cars and limited car speeds to no more than 4 mph.
The US approach was radically different, blending private sector innovation vision with public sector foresight, ultimately making it the center of the world's automotive industry. Mass-producing affordable cars and building a nationwide highway system not only solves public safety issues but also unlocks industrial potential.
Chris Lehane also mentioned that OpenAI will be committed to working with U.S. policymakers to explore how AI can better serve national interests and the public interest. They are committed to democratic values and committed to promoting AI technology based on these values globally.
OpenAI also believes U.S. support for innovation is key to its success. That’s why OpenAI’s CEO will kick off the effort at a conference in Washington, D.C., on January 30.
The conference will showcase the state of AI and its potential to drive economic growth. The event will also launch the Innovate America initiative, which aims to work with states across the country to ensure that the economic benefits of AI reach Americans from all walks of life.
OpenAI’s positionIn the “Where We Stand” section, OpenAI lays out the core points of its advocacy, which state their position as follows:
• Believe in the United States because the United States believes in innovation . Innovation is the continued development of the United Statescore driving force for development.
•Chips, data, energy and talent are the keys to winning the AI competition. This is a competition that America must win.
•There is currently $175 billion in funding waiting to be invested in AI projects globally. If the United States is unable to attract these funds, they will flow to projects supported by , thereby strengthening its global influence.
•The rules for the development and use of AI should be based on the democratic values that the United States has always advocated, which is what OpenAI calls "democratic AI."
•As with any industry, reasonable rules are needed to keep the public safe while helping innovators thrive by encouraging investment, competition and greater freedom. To better achieve this goal, these rules should apply nationwide.
This section reaffirms OpenAI’s confidence in AI technology and their determination to promote the development of AI in a democratic and responsible manner, while emphasizing the important position and strategic advantage of the United States in the global AI competition.
Competitiveness and SecurityIn the "Competitiveness and Security" section, OpenAI spells out important measures to ensure that AI benefits the greatest number of people, namely protecting the public from real harm through reasonable rules and building AI based on democratic values. . These values include:
Free markets: Promote free and fair competition, which drives innovation.
Freedom for developers and users: They can use and direct AI tools according to their own needs, subject to reasonable and clear standards to ensure that AI is safe for everyone. At the same time, when rules are violated, corresponding responsibilities should be borne.
Prevent the abuse of AI tools: Avoid using AI tools to accumulate power to control its citizens, or to threaten or coerce others.
The federal government should clear the way for the development of the AI industry just as it helped clear obstacles for the auto industry, including resolving the complexities of different rules between states to ensure that the development of cutting-edge AI models can promote the U.S. economy. and safety.
"Frontier models" refer to large-scale language models that are at the forefront of capability benchmarks. OpenAI emphasizes that these models should be responsibly exported to allies and partners to help them build their own AI ecosystems, including innovation in the developer community and distribution of AI benefits, while ensuring that these technologies are built on U.S. technology, not financial support.
OpenAI also discussed strategic recommendations for ensuring the security and competitiveness of cutting-edge models, emphasizing the importance of federal involvement in developing and providing support. The following are key points of the strategy:
1) Prioritize competitiveness and security
Led by the Commonwealth and in partnership with industry, thisThe strategy should include:
Developing best practices that protect deployments from the risks of crime, terrorism and funding abuse, and industrial espionage, while streamlining industry engagement with security services and agencies.
Develop Exports: Ensure industry can safely share cutting-edge models with U.S. allies and partners, support their economies and developer communities, and protect open innovation ecosystems; while limiting exports to adversaries who may abuse technology.
Building an Alternative Normative Framework: To reduce risks to U.S. competitiveness arising from differences in state and international rules, the federal government should lead the establishment of safety assessments and lead international cooperation to achieve shared safety standards.
2) OpenAI’s current measures
OpenAI has taken actions to support this strategy, including:
Developing the industry-leading Preparedness Framework , used to test cutting-edge models for security risks (such as assessing their ability to create new cyber threats).
Mitigate risk with customized safeguards.
Support allies and partners to adopt its model and work with partners such as laboratories and defense research institutions.
3) Federal support recommendations
To help U.S. AI companies develop and deploy cutting-edge models safely, the federal government should:
Share security information: e.g. Briefing on threats and model testing results.
Incentivize AI companies to deploy their products broadly: including support for allies, partners, and U.S. agencies.
Support the development of standards and safeguards: ensure their international recognition and acceptance and promote direct collaboration with institutions.
Help companies obtain security infrastructure: such as classified computing clusters to assess the security risks of models.
Promote transparency: Promote transparency consistent with market competition while protecting trade secrets.
Create voluntary collaboration pathways: Work with companies developing large-scale language models to define model evaluation, test models, and exchange information.
4) Recommendations for further coordination
AI builders can strengthen cooperation with the federation by:
Form alliances to identify the most security-related best practices.
Develop training programs to develop the next generation of AI talent, especially in regions that have not fully participated in past waves of innovation.
This section emphasizes the importance of collaboration while proposing specific courses of action to promote U.S. security and leadership in the AI competition.
"Rules of the Road"This section discusses the importance of developing "Rules of the Road", emphasizing the use of clear and predictable rules to ensure the safe use and widespread deployment of AI, while unleashing its Full potential.
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Widely deploy AI technology: Increase public trust in AI by ensuring its use is safe.
Democratic values: Support free markets and allow AI developers and users to work and collaborate responsibly.
Towards the Intelligence Age: AI is viewed as infrastructure technology rather than social media. It will allow our future generations to achieve things that are currently impossible and significantly improve the quality of life.
Goals of implementing "Rules of the Road"
Protecting users and families: ensuring children are protected from potential harm.
Transparent content source: Let users understand the source of the content.
Personalized tool usage: Users can customize AI tools according to their personal needs.
About child safety
Encourage the prevention of the generation and distribution of harmful content related to children (such as CSAM/CSEM).
Introduce protection mechanisms throughout the life cycle of AI development.
Promote strong partnerships between AI companies and law enforcement and the legal system.
Content Transparency
Apply provenance data to all AI-generated audio and video content.
Adopt common provenance standards (such as those developed by C2PA).
Encourage large companies to disclose their progress toward more advanced sourcing methods.
About personalization
Models should remain neutral by default while allowing users to customize them according to their personal needs.
Users can choose preferences to personalize AI tools and, in particular, control data usage.
And industry should work together to increase public AI literacy through pilot projects, school technology budgets, and professional development training.
User Responsibility
Users are responsible for how they use and create AI content. Reasonable rules can only effectively protect the public if both users and developers follow them.
OpenAI mentioned that they have taken a number of steps to support these principles:
Establish strong child safety measures and work with relevant agencies and law enforcement to address protection issues.
Develop and deploy methods to let users understand the origin of AI-generated content.
Provide tools to help users personalize their ChatGPT experience within reason while controlling the use of their data.
This section shows how OpenAI contributes to building a safer and more trustworthy AI ecosystem by developing rules and support.
The critical significance of infrastructureIn the "Infrastructure as Destiny" section, OpenAI emphasized the critical significance of establishing sufficient infrastructure for the development of AI in the United States, not onlyIt is to ensure that global AI technology is based on American rather than foreign technology. It is also an excellent opportunity to promote the re-industrialization of the US economy:
The importance of infrastructure: chips, data, energy and talents are the key to the AI era key resources, the use of which can create a wide range of economic opportunities and enhance global competitiveness.
Seize the moment: By lowering the cost of computing and energy and providing adequate infrastructure, this will not only directly create tens of thousands of high-skilled jobs, but also boost local economies, modernize energy grids, and Promote long-term economic growth.
Demands and Challenges: Computing and energy demand currently far exceeds supply, while $175 billion in global funding awaits investment in AI infrastructure. If the United States does not act quickly, these resources may go to projects supported by .
Solution
Ensure AI can learn from common public information: Allow AI to learn like humans while protecting creators from unauthorized digital copying.
Digitized data: Much data has not yet been digitized. Making it more accessible or machine-readable can help AI developers use this data to develop better public services.
Build a framework for alliance cooperation: Establish a framework involving U.S. allies and partners to simplify access to the AI ecosystem and supply chain and develop common security standards.
AI Economic Zones: Federal, State, and Local Work with industry to expedite the permitting process for building AI infrastructure, such as solar arrays, wind farms, and nuclear reactors.
AI research labs and workforce development: Encourage AI companies to partner with public universities to provide computing resources, promote the training of a highly skilled AI workforce, and support key industries.
National AI Education Strategy: Partnering with U.S. companies to prepare students and the workforce for the age of AI.
Invest in research infrastructure: Provide scientists and innovators with the computing and data necessary to democratize and accelerate AI scientific research.
Energy Technology Leadership: Advancing next-generation energy technologies such as nuclear fission and fusion.
Federal Support for High-Value AI Public Works: Federal promotes investments in AI infrastructure through procurement commitments and credit support.
OpenAI proposes an economic blueprint that it promises to continuously update based on cooperation with the United States to ensure that AI technology can solve real problems and benefit the greatest number of people. These infrastructure recommendations not only enhance AI development but also highlight U.S. leadership in the global AI competition.