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.
Or maybe the infrastructure in your building in or fairly near a city just sucks, and you use a 5G base station for internet.
This kind of thing is… extremely common in areas that broadly have unsubstantial net infrastructure, or just poorer areas of developed cities.