Artificial intelligence is on a path to become as revolutionary a technology as the wheel, the printing press and the gasoline engine, an OpenAI executive said in Southern Nevada Friday. “When you get these economic transformations of that scale, they drive enormous economic opportunity,” said Chris Lehane, the tech company’s chief global affairs officer. Lehane joined Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., at the College of Southern Nevada’s North Las Vegas campus. The conversation was moderated by Clarissa Cota, CSN’s vice president of external relations and campus operations. It centered around democratizing AI, or getting the technology into people’s hands early in its adoption. Lehane said that nearly 1 million Nevadans regularly use OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has almost 1 billion users worldwide. CSN’s event included workshops for faculty and students on how to use the technology.…