Openai's Sam Altman Thanks Sen John Fetterman For 'normalizing Hoodies'

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., was 1 of nan last senators to mobility OpenAI main Sam Altman during Thursday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing, and nan taxable of some Three Mile Island and nan Democrat’s penchant for Carhartt outerwear came up.

Fetterman said that arsenic a legislator he has been capable to meet group pinch "much much awesome jobs and careers" and that owed to Altman’s technology, "humans will person a awesome expertise to adapt."

He told Altman that immoderate Americans are worried astir AI connected various levels, and he asked nan executive to reside it.

In response, Altman said he appreciated Fetterman’s praise.

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Sam Altman, left, and Sen. John Fetterman (Getty)

"Thank you, Senator, for nan benignant words and for normalizing hoodies successful much spaces," he said.

"I emotion to spot that. I americium incredibly excited astir nan complaint of progress, but I besides americium cautious," Altman said astir nan Democrat’s peculiar question.

"I deliberation this is beyond thing that we each afloat yet understand wherever it's going to go. This is, I believe, among nan biggest … technological revolutions humanity will person ever produced. And I consciousness privileged to beryllium here."

Fetterman besides questioned Microsoft Vice Chair Brad Smith connected concerns complete nan proliferation of information centers making inferior costs for Pennsylvanians and Americans spell up.

"For me, power information is nationalist security," he said, citing nan usage of renewable power and fossil fuels. 

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"My attraction is besides that I want to make judge that ratepayers successful Pennsylvania really deed excessively difficult for passim each of this," he said, arsenic galore mid-Atlantic states are seeing an summation successful onshore purchases for information centers that caller tech for illustration AI requires.

While nan building of specified centers does create jobs, he said, those roles are often temporary.

He went connected to statement really Microsoft is seeking to revive a reactor connected Three Mile Island successful Dauphin County, which infamously melted down decades ago, and carbon-neutral intends to powerfulness information centers and more.

"I've been search nan scheme to reopen TMI (Three Mile Island). My ain individual communicative is I had to drawback my hamster and evacuate during nan meltdown successful 1979," he said.

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"You mightiness presume that I was anti-nuclear, and I really americium very supportive of atomic because that's an important portion of nan stack if you really want to reside ambiance change."

"But I cognize that's to powerfulness Microsoft's information center. And I really admit that, but if I'm saying now, if we're capable to perpetrate that, nan powerfulness acquisition agreement, it's not going to raise energy for Pennsylvania families."

Smith replied that successful information halfway construction, Microsoft plans to put successful nan powerfulness grid an balanced magnitude to nan energy it will usage truthful that it is not tapping into constricted supply.

"No. 2, we'll negociate each of this successful a measurement that ensures that our activity does not raise nan value of energy to nan community," he said.