Visionary:Sam Altman

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Sam Altman

Biography

CEO of OpenAI, former president of Y Combinator. Leading figure in AGI development.

Category

AI Leader

Notable Quotes

On Creative Destruction in AI Era

"AI will be the most important technological development in human history."[1]

On Wealth Inequality and Technology

"We need to think about how we're going to distribute wealth in a world where AI can do most economically valuable work."[2]

On Labor Market Disruption from Automation

"I think we're going to have systems that are capable of doing any job that a human can do within the next decade."[3]

On Zero Marginal Cost Society

"The marginal cost of intelligence is going to zero."[1]

On AI Governance and Regulation

"We need to govern AI at a global level, similar to how we govern nuclear weapons."[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sam Altman, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2023), May 16, 2023, View From The Top Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "ref_2023_1" defined multiple times with different content
  2. Sam Altman, The Ezra Klein Show (2021), June 11, 2021, The New York Times
  3. Sam Altman, Lex Fridman Podcast (2024), March 18, 2024, Episode 419