Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Ads are coming to ChatGPT – Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried chats with OpenAI’s Chris Lehane at the World Economic Forum in Davos to talk about this development and more of the biggest questions shaping the future of AI.
They also cover AI as a basic right, rising global competition with China and how AI could reshape healthcare, work, elections and democracy in 2026 and beyond.
Timestamps:
0:00 Ads are coming to ChatGPT
3:05 Why OpenAI decided to allow ads
5:06 Guardrails, persuasion, and regulation
6:59 Geopolitics. Democratic AI vs. autocratic AI
10:30 Where are we going in 2026?
12:20 Devices
13:10 AI and elections
15:15 An AI populist agenda
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Ads are coming to ChatGPT – Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried chats with OpenAI’s Chris Lehane at the World Economic Forum in Davos to talk about this development and more of the biggest questions shaping the future of AI.
They also cover AI as a basic right, rising global competition with China and how AI could reshape healthcare, work, elections and democracy in 2026 and beyond.
Timestamps:
0:00 Ads are coming to ChatGPT
3:05 Why OpenAI decided to allow ads
5:06 Guardrails, persuasion, and regulation
6:59 Geopolitics. Democratic AI vs. autocratic AI
10:30 Where are we going in 2026?
12:20 Devices
13:10 AI and elections
15:15 An AI populist agenda
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