Sam Altman, chief govt officer of OpenAI, at an occasion in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023.
Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Pictures
Indonesia has awarded OpenAI chief govt Sam Altman its first “Golden Visa” — per week after the scheme was launched to draw international funding to Southeast Asia’s largest economic system.
“There are a number of classes of golden visas aside from these based mostly on funding/capital funding, considered one of which is the golden visa which is given to figures who’ve a world popularity and may present advantages for Indonesia,” Silmy Karim, Indonesia’s director normal of immigration, stated in a press release.
“With this golden visa, the hope is that Altman can contribute in the direction of the event and use of AI in Indonesia,” Karim stated.
Altman’s “Golden Visa” is for 10 years. As a golden visa holder, the American entrepreneur will get to get pleasure from precedence screening at airports throughout the nation’s huge archipelago, together with longer intervals of keep and ease of entry and exit.
Altman, who co-founded ChatGPT maker OpenAI with Elon Musk, was in Indonesia earlier his 12 months as a part of a whirlwind tour that took him to a number of main cities in Asia, together with Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Singapore.
ChatGPT is the AI chatbot that has gone viral for its means to generate humanlike responses to customers’ prompts. Simply two months after its launch, it hit 100 million customers.
Altman and different tech leaders just lately warned in an open letter that AI poses a human extinction danger on par with nuclear struggle and pressured that lowering the dangers related to the expertise needs to be a worldwide precedence.
— CNBC’s Roshan Vaswani contributed to this report.
