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Sam Altman
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Do we make sure AI is a tool that has proper safeguards as it gets really powerful? (November 23, 2023)
— What Sam Altman said about AI at a CEO summit the day before OpenAI ousted him as CEO, Fortune (December 14, 2023)
Sam Altman
American venture capitalist
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Born 1985 · age 41United States
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Updated 2026-07-17
He runs the company that dropped ChatGPT on the world in 2022 and made artificial intelligence a kitchen-table topic overnight. The board fired him in 2023 for candor issues; the staff revolt had him back in five days.
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Samuel Harris Altman was born April 22, 1985. He left Stanford after two years to co-found Loopt, a geosocial networking service that sold to Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million. In 2011 he joined Y Combinator and ran it as president from 2014 to 2019, building a portfolio that includes Reddit, Worldcoin, and Helion Energy—enough to make him a billionaire. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and took the CEO chair in 2019. Under him the company released ChatGPT in November 2022, the shot that turned AI from a tech-section story into a general panic. A year later the board ousted him for not being…
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Sam Altman
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I expect AI to be capable of superhuman persuasion before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes.
— As quoted in Maggie Harrison, Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Learning "Superhuman Persuasion", October 28, 2023.
Sam Altman
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Regulation will be crucial, and it will take time to understand this.
— Il futuro dell'AI per il creatore di ChatGPT: potenzialmente pauroso, va regolamentato, 20 February 2023 (referenced in Italian)
Sam Altman
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Trust the exponential. Flat looking backwards, vertical looking forwards.
— Conversation on Twitter with Elon Musk (December 3, 2022)
Sam Altman
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Perhaps another reason people stopped using the word “singularity” is that it implies a single moment in time, and it now looks like the merge is going to be a gradual process.
— Sam Altman (December 7, 2017). "The Merge". (origial Medium post)
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