“I am sure we will figure out much better and more interesting ways to spend our time,” the OpenAI CEO said. “But I am feeling nostalgic for the present.”

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This includes via OpenAI's recent-announced Codex app, which promises huge steps forward in coding ability and capabilities. Altman said Codex was like he had “felt another ChatGPT moment” where there is a “clear view of the future of knowledge work and how enterprises and individual people are going to work in a completely different way”.

Sam Altman is planning to hand over OpenAI not to a person, but to an AI model. He’s not joking. “I would never stand in the way of that,” he said. If artificial intelligence is supposed to run the world,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the hiring of Dylan Scandinaro as Head of Preparedness to address risks from powerful models. Altman emphasized the need for safeguards and expressed confidence in Scandinaro's capabilities to lead these efforts.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman contrasted Moltbook’s sudden rise with the steady adoption of AI tools like coding assistants and digital agents.

Sam Altman founded his first tech company as a teenager and was running Y combinator, the world’s leading startup accelerator, by 28. As CEO of OpenAI, the 40-year-old billionaire unleashed ChatGPT, creating a $500 billion behemoth.

In the middle of a Forbes profile of Altman’s journey through the AI world — which is just astoundingly chaotic, when you see it all laid out in a row — Altman says that “we basically have built AGI,