OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Feed Its Data Into AI Systems | To hear OpenAI tell it, the U.S. can only defeat China on the global stage with the help of artificial intelligence.

From the article: OpenAI wants you to think of AI like a car. Europe invented the car, but heavy regulations prevented its widespread adoption there. In laissez-faire America, the car dominated the culture. OpenAI wants the U.S. to do that again. On Monday the company behind ChatGPT published AI in America: OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint, a whitepaper that calls on Washington to let AI determine the country’s future.

AI in America is a slight [15-page document](https://openai.com/global-affairs/openais-economic-blueprint/) with an AI-generated photo on its cover that shows an architect’s desk overlooking a futuristic cityscape. The picture and 15 pages seem fine at first glance. But like so much of the stuff attached to AI, both the image and the outline for economic prosperity seem vague and grotesque the more you inspect them. The picture’s coffee cup has no handle. The words written on the pages of the picture look like unreadable smudges. The economic blueprint contains calls to action that ask the government to turn over public secrets to large private companies.

The more you look, the more things fall apart. OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint is a call for a lightly regulated AI future where government-collected data, both state secrets and public information, is fed into its vast and hungry machines.

The first thing OpenAI wants you to know is that AI is very important and very scary. “AI is too powerful to be led and shaped by autocrats, but that is the growing risk we face, while the economic opportunity AI presents is too compelling to forfeit,” reads an opening note from OpenAI vice president of global affairs Chris Lehane. “Shared prosperity is as near and measurable as the new jobs and growth⁠(opens in a new window) that will come from building more AI infrastructure like data centers, chip manufacturing facilities, and power plants.”

And how should America accomplish such ambitious goals? By sharing as many of its secrets as possible with AI companies. “As appropriate, share national security-related information and resources that it alone maintains—such as briefings on security threats to the industry and high-level results of testing US and non-US AI models—with US AI companies pursuing advanced research,” the economic blueprints says.