Sam Altman, chief govt officer of OpenAI, at an occasion in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023.
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Indonesia has awarded OpenAI chief govt Sam Altman its first “Golden Visa” — every week after the scheme was launched to draw international funding to Southeast Asia’s largest financial system.
“There are a number of classes of golden visas other than these primarily based on funding/capital funding, certainly one of which is the golden visa which is given to figures who’ve a global status and may present advantages for Indonesia,” Silmy Karim, Indonesia’s director basic of immigration, mentioned in an announcement.
“With this golden visa, the hope is that Altman can contribute in direction of the event and use of AI in Indonesia,” Karim mentioned.
Altman’s “Golden Visa” is for 10 years. As a golden visa holder, the American entrepreneur will get to take pleasure in 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 yr 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 capacity to generate humanlike responses to customers’ prompts. Simply two months after its launch, it hit 100 million customers.
Altman and different tech leaders lately warned in an open letter that AI poses a human extinction danger on par with nuclear conflict and burdened that lowering the dangers related to the know-how ought to be a world precedence.
— CNBC’s Roshan Vaswani contributed to this report.
