Your highness, highnesses, excellencies, Sam, thank you for those compelling words. A new renaissance. Now, of course, this morning we had the announcement of agreements you've signed with Abu Dhabi across energy, education, investment, government. It's incredible to see. Can I ask you what makes this approach stand out here in Abu Dhabi? The adoption of AI at scale. And what can we learn from this partnership?
I think the UAE has consistently been the most forward-looking country in the world for AI adoption. Going back, you know, to right after ChatGPT launched and even before that, this is a country that has decided to bet all in on AI throughout the government, throughout the economy. The use, I think it's 80% of young people are ChatGPT weekly active users, one of the highest of any country. It's an incredible embrace, and I think it has come from the leadership, and there has just been an acknowledgement that societies have to bet on this technology, and societies that embrace it the most and the earliest will thrive the most. So we're thrilled for the partnerships today, and I think they are just another step along a long relationship between OpenAI and the UAE, and a shared belief in what AI can do to transform a country and an economy.
Of course, we're here at the opening ceremony of ADIPC and the ADNOC agreement with G42 and, of course, OpenAI for OpenAI frontier adoption. Tell us what that means, how that can reshape the energy industry. This is the first energy company in the world to adopt OpenAI frontier, so quite exciting. How will it reshape the energy industry? But also looking out, what should they be thinking about next?
G42 in particular has been a long-standing and visionary partner of ours. And the relationship between G42 and ADNOC and us is something that we've been talking about for a couple of years. And now that the models have caught up, I think there is really an opportunity to say we're going to use the ability of these models now to understand a complex system, to invent, to innovate, and say we're going to take the hardest, most valuable problems that ADNOC faces and figure out how we can use the absolute frontier of AI with a lot of capacity to deliver fast and huge results. And I think we are all, we're all not dreaming big enough, because we're all kind of used to last year's models, and so we have maybe some intuition for what was possible. But watching what these models can do now, you know, we've got to go find the biggest problems to take on that we can. And I think that we're all going to be surprised on the upside.
I mean, not dreaming big enough is not a problem we have in the UAE.
It's one of the reasons we love it here.
We can't keep up with the dreams here. Now, there is a lot of concern about how much energy AI will need, and as Dr. Sultan said in his speech, now we also, now we'll see what AI can do for energy. So I want to ask you about that, between the concern of how much energy is needed for AI, but also the hope of what it can unlock, that dreaming big enough. Looking five years out, where do you think we land between the concern of AI needs, but also the incredible potential?
On one hand, the energy per query is falling incredibly dramatically. We're just delivering huge efficiency gains. We're thousands or hundreds of thousands of times, maybe more, efficient than we were three or four years ago. On the other hand, as we make it more efficient, people just want to use it much more. And I think we, the AI industry and the energy industry, have an obligation to society to deliver that. You know, if people can get great medical advice, to say nothing of new drugs, if people, if every child in the world can get a great education, if people can have a much higher quality of life, like we want people to use a lot of AI.
A statistic that I find amazing about this is six years ago the top user in the world at OpenAI was using 100,000 tokens a month, and it seemed ridiculous to us. The global average was like zero. Now the global average per capita is about 100,000 tokens a month, and the top user uses about 500 billion tokens a month. So this is just an unbelievable growth rate of how much people want to use AI, and I think this is going to keep going, and I think we need to enable this for people because there's so much good. Now, as you said, we're going to see what AI can do for energy. We would like to more than return the favor of the energy demands that we'll have by making, you know, a net gain for energy availability in the world.
And then there was a second part of what you said, which is people are nervous about the impact AI is going to have. You know, at the start of this year, this is very approximate because it's spiky and it's not true in all ways, but AI was mostly not as smart as our smartest scientists, and now it's mostly smarter than them. And AI was mostly not able to do a lot of white-collar jobs, and now it mostly can do a lot of parts of that. I think we're going to navigate through this all fine. I think we're going to be reminded of how much people care about other people, how much human creativity matters, how much human judgment matters, how much we want people to stand behind that judgment. So although it looks incredibly disruptive to the economy and people are nervous about that, I think we're going to navigate our way through it. We'll find ways to adjust our jobs.
I think there are, though, going to be big questions about as these systems get so smart, how do we guarantee and how do we give the world comfort with that guarantee that we are going to avoid a serious safety and alignment incident, and I think that'll be increasingly important for our industry to demonstrate.
It's great that you bring up this point of answering to it, and that you know how you see your own responsibility in that, because of course, you know, what's driving this conversation in the last few weeks, we've had a lot of questions about the points you raise about where AI takes us as societies. So I want to see how you see your own responsibility in that.
