OpenAI seeks to increase global AI use in everyday life

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Source: Reuters

OpenAI is expanding its efforts to convince global governments to build more data centers and encourage greater usage of artificial intelligence in areas such as education, health and disaster preparedness.

The initiative – called OpenAI for Countries – will expand the reach of its products and help close the gap between countries with broad access to AI technology and nations that do not yet have the capacity, the company said.

OpenAI also hopes to encourage deeper usage of its tools, adding that AI systems are capable of more complex tasks than many people realize.

“Most countries are still operating far short of what today’s AI systems make possible,” the company said in a report shared with Reuters.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/davos/openai-seeks-increase-global-ai-use-everyday-life-2026-01-21/

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When AI companies can't on their own find enough people gullible enough to use generative AI, go after government officials who can try to force their citizens to use it.

[Hugin]

1. I can't think of a single instance where I could/would need to use generative AI at all...

Never mind, every day.

[chowder66]

2. Because AI is more important than water and clean air.

[SheltieLover]

3. Not happening here.

No desire to talk to machines & far less desire to have them "talk" to me.

[The Grand Illuminist]

6. You may not have to.

nt

[SheltieLover]

7. I won't by choice. Ever!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. A jumbled mass of scrambled logic

Trying to make sense of search engine data dumps.

[The Grand Illuminist]

5. In come the era of apathy, the sloth and the uneducated.

nt

[SheltieLover]

8. It was prob late 80s - early 90s when a Burger King near me had a talking garbage can

I hated the pos. Never used that one. I could see the trend...

Pissed me off to no end