{"id":995783,"date":"2026-03-02T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995783"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:23:07","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-sparks-debate-on-whether-elected-government-or-unelected-private-companies-should-have-more-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-sparks-debate-on-whether-elected-government-or-unelected-private-companies-should-have-more-power\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparks debate on \u2018whether elected government or unelected private companies\u2019 should have more power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrapped up a lively AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on X (formerly Twitter) with a summary post highlighting three major insights from the discussion surrounding his company\u2019s recent partnership with the US Department of War (DoW). The post highlights ongoing tensions in the AI community about power dynamics between governments and private tech firms, nationalisation risks, and the underappreciated efforts in maintaining national security. <\/p>\n<p>Altman\u2019s online discussion was initiated to address questions about OpenAI\u2019s agreement to deploy its AI models on the DoW\u2019s classified networks, a deal that includes safeguards against domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The session, however, drew thousands of engagements, blending support, criticism, and probing inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrapped up a lively AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on X (formerly Twitter) with a summary post highlighting three major insights from the discussion surrounding his company\u2019s recent partnership with the US Department of War (DoW). The post highlights ongoing tensions in the AI community about power dynamics between governments and private tech firms, nationalisation risks, and the underappreciated efforts in maintaining national security. Altman\u2019s online discussion was initiated to address questions about OpenAI\u2019s agreement to deploy its AI models on the DoW\u2019s classified networks, a deal that includes safeguards against domestic mass surveillance and autonomous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}