Axios interview: Reimagining government + business + AI
OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, suggests that the interdependence of AI companies and government may necessitate a new public-private hybrid management model. He also emphasizes the need for AI companies to share wealth with the public to avoid political backlash and envisions AI as a cheap, abundant utility for intelligence.
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Read the original article: https://axios.com/2026/05/13/axios-interview-reimagining-government-business-ai
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“Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer”
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Two independent cross-references from Axios explicitly identify Chris Lehane as OpenAI's Chief Global Affairs Officer.
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— At Tuesday's event, OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said that approach would allow more companies, like local water utilities, to access advanced AI tools.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/22/openai-gpt-cyber-government…
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/22/openai-gpt-cyber-government…
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— OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane has long argued for redistributing the gains of new technologies, from pitching a 'new deal' for crypto to promoting policies that would spread AI's …
https://axios.com/2026/04/10/ai-ceos-washington-policies
https://axios.com/2026/04/10/ai-ceos-washington-policies
“a conversation Tuesday at OpenAI's new office in Washington”
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The provided web search results discuss OpenAI's partnership with AWS, its original founding location in San Francisco, and internal AGI scaling, but none of the results confirm or deny the existence of a new office in Washington.
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— You could own the birthplace of OpenAI — if you have $1.5 million to spare. When OpenAI first launched in 2015, its founders, including Sam Altman, did not have an office and primarily worked out of c…
https://www.businessinsider.com/original-openai-office-is-on…
https://www.businessinsider.com/original-openai-office-is-on…
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— OpenAI has developed an internal scale for charting the progress of its large language models moving toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to a report from Bloomberg. AGI usually mea…
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/…
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/…
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