OpenAI CEO Sam Altman advocated for more artificial intelligence "freedom" and less regulation while speaking to U.S. lawmakers in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. "We need to give adult users a lot of freedom to use AI in the way that they want to use it,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business,

Altman said he will still remain as CEO of OpenAI.