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In communities from Oakland to Abilene, people are getting hands-on experience with AI tools that help unlock their inner builder through the OpenAI Academy. Ensuring people benefit from AI requires making it broadly accessible and helping people develop the skills to use it in their daily lives. More than 3 million people have used OpenAI Academy resources to build knowledge and skills— including one million who have joined our online community and thousands who have also joined our online and in-person events across the country. Last week OpenAI President and Co-Founder Greg Brockman joined us for two OpenAI Academy sessions. In Oakland, we partnered with The Hidden Genius Project, Self-eSTEM, All Tied Up, Kingmakers of Oakland, Oakland Natives, and Black Girls Code to host a full-day OpenAI Academy session for high school students and Hidden Genius Project alumni from across the East Bay. He also met with participants at a hands-on AI skills session in San Francisco, co-hosted with AARP’s OATS program, where people explored how ChatGPT can help improve daily life. And today we’re hosting an Academy workshop, also in Oakland, for non-profits to showcase how they can use ChatGPT to help scale their impact and do more in their communities. Meanwhile, in Abilene, we hosted an OpenAI Academy with the Development Corporation of Abilene, TSTC, and Cisco College, bringing together more than 50 local educators and administrators, along with 60 small business participants. These events are not just opportunities to teach skills and empower participants — they’re also an important way for us to hear directly from people across a wide range of communities, gather feedback, and continue building tools that better serve and empower them.