Sam Altman: Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human Civilization
Gizmodo • • business
Key Points:
- Bill Gates withdrew from the India AI Impact Summit keynote hours before the event due to ongoing scrutiny related to the Epstein Files, though he denies any wrongdoing, while the summit proceeded amid protests and a generally optimistic atmosphere about AI's future.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gained significant attention for his interactions, including a notable photo moment where he and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to hold hands, and for advocating urgent global AI regulation and suggesting companies might be using AI as a scapegoat for layoffs.
- Altman controversially dismissed claims about ChatGPT's water usage as exaggerated but acknowledged concerns about energy consumption in data centers, urging the energy sector to shift rapidly to nuclear, wind, and solar power.
- He compared the energy
