“We created OpenAI partly because industry is investing such vast sums of money into A. I.<br />research that commercial, private entities were on track to create the first powerful A. I.<br />systems, and these entities don’t have a built-in mechanism to ensure that everyone benefits from advances,” Mr. Brockman told me in an email.<br />The company understands that the A. I.-based projects<br />that succeed could be transformational: They will alter existing industries and create huge new ones, including a stream of new businesses from which Google can profit.<br />But the tech industry’s huge investments in A. I.<br />might also be cause for alarm, because they are not balanced by anywhere near that level of investment by the government.<br />Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future -<br />One persistent criticism of Silicon Valley is that it no longer works on big, world-changing ideas.<br />With greater federal funding, the report said, researchers could focus more on basic<br />research — more tenuous, potentially less immediately applicable areas of A. I.<br />Technology companies aren’t just funding big things — they are funding the biggest, most world-changing things.<br />Greg Brockman, a founder and chief technology officer of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm, echoed this idea.
