“More than 100 million people in India use ChatGPT every week, more than a third of them are students,” Altman said. “India is also the fastest growing market now for Codex, our coding agent that works to help people develop software faster and better”
That makes India one of OpenAI’s most strategically important markets, he indicated, pointing to both consumer adoption and developer uptake. “India is also the fastest growing market now for Codex,” he said, describing it as “a strong signal about developer adoption and enterprise AI integration here”
He added that India had made progress in deploying artificial intelligence at scale. “It’s also striking how much progress India has made in its mission to put AI to work for more people in more parts of the country, and India’s leadership in sovereign AI, building on infrastructure SLMs and much more, has been great to watch,” Altman said.
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Future of AI
Altman said the pace of AI development has accelerated sharply over the past year. “We’ve gone from AI systems that struggled with high school level math to systems that can do research level mathematics now and derive novel results in theoretical physics,” he said.
Looking ahead, Altman said OpenAI believes more advanced systems could emerge within a few years. “On our current trajectory, we believe we may be only a couple of years away from early versions of true super intelligence,” he said. “If we are right, by the end of 2028, more of the world’s intellectual capacity could reside inside of data centers than outside of them. This is an extraordinary statement to make and of course we could be wrong but I think it really bears serious consideration.”
He said such systems could outperform humans in a range of roles. “A super intelligence at some point on its development curve would be capable of doing a better job being the CEO of a major company than any executive certainly me or doing better research than our best scientists,” Altman said.
Altman outlined three principles guiding OpenAI’s approach. “Number one, we believe that democratisation of AI is the only fair and safe path forward. Democratisation of AI is the best way to ensure that humanity flourishes. On the other hand, centralization of this technology in one company or country could lead to ruin,” he said.
“The desirable future a couple of decades from now has got to look like a world of liberty, democracy, widespread flourishing, and an increase in human agency,” he added. “Some people want effective totalitarianism in exchange for a cure for cancer. I don’t think we should accept that trade-off, nor do I think we need to”
On safety, Altman said resilience must extend beyond technical safeguards. “Second, we believe that AI resilience is a core safety strategy,” he said. “No AI lab, no AI system can deliver a good future on their own”
He cited risks such as open-source biological models. “There’ll be extremely capable bio models available open source that could help people create new pathogens. We need a societywide approach about how we’re going to defend against this,” Altman said.
Altman also said uncertainty remains about how AI will reshape geopolitics and governance. “We don’t yet know how to think about some super intelligence being aligned with dictators in totalitarian countries. We don’t know how to think about countries using AI to fight new kinds of war with each other. We don’t know how to think about when and whether countries are going to have to think about new forms of social contracts,” he said.
He reiterated OpenAI’s strategy of gradual rollout. “We continue to believe that iterative deployment is a key strategic insight and that society needs to contend with and use each successive new level of AI capability, have time to integrate it, understand it, and decide how to move forward,” Altman said.
On the economic impact, he said falling costs and job disruption would occur simultaneously. “A really great thing about AI progress is that it looks like many things are going to get much cheaper and have much faster economic growth,” Altman said. “But the other side of this coin is that current jobs are going to get disrupted”
“Technology always disrupts jobs. We always find new and better things to do,” he said.
Altman said regulation would be necessary, including international coordination. “Of course, this is not to suggest that we won’t need any regulation or safeguards. We obviously do urgently like we have for other powerful technologies,” he said. “In particular, we expect the world may need something like the IAEA for international coordination of AI and especially for it to have the ability to rapidly respond to changing circumstances”
“The next few years will test global society as this technology continues to improve at a rapid pace,” Altman said. “We can choose to either empower people or concentrate power.”
Edited by Jyoti Narayan
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