Sam Altman is meeting with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles this week. He's also meeting with senior Trump administration officials. And lawmakers. And economists. The man has constructed a schedule that looks like someone trying to get approval for a middle school field trip except the chaperones control nuclear arsenals and the entire regulatory framework of artificial intelligence.
There's an AI framework deadline coming. Nobody knows what it says. Nobody knows what it does. But Altman is making the rounds like a guy who forgot to study for the exam and is now asking everyone in the hallway what's going to be on it.
OpenAI built a chatbot that hallucinates legal precedent and writes college essays in the voice of a motivational speaker having a stroke. Now the CEO is sitting down with the White House to discuss frameworks. Frameworks for what? Frameworks for making sure the thing that can't reliably tell you how many Rs are in strawberry doesn't accidentally convince the Pentagon to launch missiles at Portugal because it misread a prompt.
Retail traders saw this headline and immediately started Googling which penny stocks are adjacent to AI regulatory compliance consulting firms that have the word quantum in their name. They're comparing notes in Discord channels about whether this means calls or puts on MSFT. They're drawing lines on charts. The lines mean nothing. The charts mean nothing. Altman could walk out of that meeting and announce he's switching careers to competitive eating and it wouldn't move the needle on your portfolio by a single cent.
Wiles gets paid to sit in a room and listen to a man explain why his product that makes things up for a living should be trusted with framework compliance. That's her job this week. Some people dig ditches.
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