Sam Altman

American venture capitalist

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Updated 2026-08-28

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

said14 Dec 2023

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

said28 Oct 2023

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

said20 Feb 2023

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

said3 Dec 2022

Trust the exponential. Flat looking backwards, vertical looking forwards.

— Conversation on Twitter with Elon Musk (December 3, 2022)

Sam Altman

said7 Dec 2017

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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