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Countries cannot afford to ignore AI adoption
Countries cannot afford to ignore AI adoption
Altman argues that countries may regulate, deploy and source AI infrastructure differently, but using AI itself is effectively non-negotiable because he expects its economic and societal value to be too large to ignore.
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Topic
- National AI Adoption
- Source timestamp
- 7:46
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