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,

In the OpenAI CEO's first congressional hearing in two years, Altman faced few hostile questions or pushback, as lawmakers' attention focuses on competition with China rather than safety and regulation that was at the center of the previous hearing.