Sam Altman

Biography

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

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

—Sam Altman, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2023), May 16, 2023, View From The Top

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

—Sam Altman, The Ezra Klein Show (2021), June 11, 2021, The New York Times

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

—Sam Altman, Lex Fridman Podcast (2024), March 18, 2024, Episode 419

"The marginal cost of intelligence is going to zero."

—Sam Altman, OpenAI DevDay Keynote (2023), November 6, 2023, San Francisco

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

—Sam Altman, Senate Judiciary Committee Testimony (2023), May 16, 2023, Washington, D.C.