ChatGPT maker OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will get Indonesia’s 1st Golden Visa
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 economic system.
“There are a number of classes of golden visas aside from these based mostly on funding/capital funding, one among which is the golden visa which is given to figures who’ve a global repute and may present advantages for Indonesia,” Silmy Karim, Indonesia’s director basic of immigration, mentioned in a press release.
“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 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 not too long ago warned in an open letter that AI poses a human extinction threat on par with nuclear conflict and careworn that decreasing the dangers related to the expertise ought to be a worldwide precedence.
— CNBC’s Roshan Vaswani contributed to this report.
