OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed optimism that President-elect Donald Trump will help the United States stay in the lead in the race on artificial intelligence, underscoring how it looks like this will be an “unusually important” topic to deal with.

The topic of AI has gained massive traction in the 2020s, with Altman stating shortly after Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election that it is “critically important” the U.S. remains on top of developing AI “with democratic values.” In a one-on-one interview with Fox News Sunday’s Shannon Bream, Altman addressed how the U.S. ought to build the necessary infrastructures, such as data centers, within its own country, as it would help the U.S. to have “the best AI infrastructure in the world.”