The CEO of the company behind ChatGPT is getting pointers from DLA Piper as he attempts to navigate a strange new world: the U.S. Congress.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrives for a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on artificial intelligence, May 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. | Patrick Semansky/AP PhotoWhen OpenAI’s Sam Altman swept into Washington this May for the Senate’s blockbuster hearing on artificial intelligence, hewith his “genuine and authentic” willingness to work with Congress.
According to two people with knowledge of the relationship, DLA Piper has been advising Altman on how to testify before Congress and charm lawmakers since at least the spring of 2023. The two people said the firm is now coaching Altman ahead of his appearance at Wednesday’s first AI Insight Forum, a CEO-studded confab being convened by Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and featuring a slew of other tech executives.
The two people requested anonymity due to the previously non-public nature of the partnership between DLA Piper and OpenAI. DLA Piper spokesperson Geneva Youel confirmed to POLITICO that the law firm “has a business relationship with OpenAI and provides strategic advice to the company on a variety of topics,” but declined to elaborate or to disclose what OpenAI is paying DLA Piper.
But despite Altman’s increasingly frequent visits to Washington, the company’s official footprint in the capital remains light. OpenAI isUntil OpenAI stands up its own operation, it’s likely to rely on DLA Piper as its sherpa in Washington. The law firm has aggressively leaned into AI policy – it was an early adopter of OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model,
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