OpenAI has hired former chancellor George Osborne to lead the start-up’s work building “democratic” artificial intelligence for the world.
The architect of the former Conservative government’s austerity programme is set to play a leading role within the high-spending company as the head of OpenAI for Countries, an overseas expansion of the $500bn Stargate initiative to build data centres in the US.
The ChatGPT maker has billed Stargate as a way to ensure American companies and values are at the foundation of the global build-out of AI, providing a bulwark against Chinese alternatives.
“I asked myself the question, ‘What’s the most exciting and promising company in the world right now?’ The answer I believe is OpenAI,” said Osborne, adding that his work would help “societies around the world share the opportunity this powerful technology brings”.
