Sam Altman says OpenAI wants to sell intelligence like a utility
During a recent appearance at BlackRock in Washington, D.C., OpenAI’s Sam Altman, shared his vision for the future of AI. At one point saying, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
Altman was describing a world where AI becomes a foundational infrastructure, something woven into everyday life so deeply that consumers and businesses simply “plug into” it the same way they rely on electricity, Wi-Fi or running water.
Except water. I bet this is some weird way of arguing they are a utility so have a right to utility infrastructure and how water is distributed.
Less “we are a utility” and more “we need all your utilities, all your clean water, all your power, and we want to decide how it’s used”
Water treatment is absolutely a utility. Water itself shouldn’t be, and isn’t if you have a well.