Yoon Meets Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO and 'Father of ChatGPT'

Presidential Office: "Meeting with Business Leaders Acts as National Energy"

President Yoon Suk-yeol will meet with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who developed and launched ChatGPT, on the 9th.

On the same day, President Yoon will meet Altman at the Yongsan Presidential Office in the afternoon and discuss artificial intelligence (AI) technology and industry in general, including ChatGPT.

Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and launched ChatGPT, an AI capable of human-like conversation.

Earlier, in a ministry briefing in January, President Yoon mentioned ChatGPT, saying, "I had ChatGPT write a New Year's address and received it. It was really excellent," and urged, "Please research ways to utilize ChatGPT in the public sector to improve work efficiency."

A key official from the Presidential Office explained to reporters met at the Yongsan Presidential Office the day before, "I previously met Elon Musk, CEO, and when meeting businesspeople, there is a kind of new entrepreneurial inspiration beyond public officials and politicians, which seems to act as national energy," explaining the background of the meeting.

He added, "President Yoon tries to meet businesspeople, especially those leading industries as global companies, whenever possible. He hopes that good inspiration will be exchanged in those meetings."

Altman is visiting Korea from this day on the invitation of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.

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