Sam Altman disputes Marc Andreessen’s description of AI meetings with Biden administration

Famed investor Marc Andreessen recently talked about meetings with Biden administration staff who gave him the impression they wanted to control AI by working closely with two or three big AI companies, shutting everyone else out through burdensome regulations.

Andreessen didn’t name OpenAI, but it was implied it would have been a beneficiary of this alleged effort. However, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Andreessen’s comments as “conspiracy theory” in a podcast this week with Bari Weiss.

“I mean, we were in a room with them, and other companies and the administration, but never like, ‘Here’s our conspiracy theory, we’re going to make it so only a few companies can build AI and then you have to do what we say.’ Never anything like that,” Altman said.

Either way, Altman and other Big Tech leaders are moving on fast from the Biden administration, donating millions to Trump’s inaugural fund.