OpenAI's Sam Altman thanks Sen John Fetterman for 'normalizing hoodies'

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

Fetterman said that arsenic a legislator helium has been capable to conscionable radical with "much much awesome jobs and careers" and that owed to Altman’s technology, "humans volition person a fantastic quality to adapt."

He told Altman that immoderate Americans are disquieted astir AI connected assorted levels, and helium asked the enforcement to code it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"For me, vigor information is nationalist security," helium said, citing the usage of renewable vigor and fossil fuels. 

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"My absorption is besides that I privation to marque definite that ratepayers successful Pennsylvania truly deed excessively hard for passim each of this," helium said, arsenic galore mid-Atlantic states are seeing an summation successful onshore purchases for information centers that caller tech similar AI requires.

While the operation of specified centers does make jobs, helium said, those roles are often temporary.

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

"I've been tracking the program to reopen TMI (Three Mile Island). My ain idiosyncratic communicative is I had to drawback my hamster and evacuate during the meltdown successful 1979," helium said.

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"You mightiness presume that I was anti-nuclear, and I really americium precise supportive of atomic due to the fact that that's an important portion of the stack if you truly privation to code clime change."

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

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

"No. 2, we'll negociate each of this successful a mode that ensures that our enactment does not rise the terms of energy to the community," helium said.