Sam Altman
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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27 Aug 2026
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Their wordsthis is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act.
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18 Aug 2026
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Confidence in safety, not capability, will increasingly set the pace of AI progress.
Their wordsWe care very deeply about AI safety. We believe the entire field will have to coordinate on shared safety standards, but will act unilaterally in the meantime. We expect confidence in safety to increasingly set the pace of AI progress.
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7 Aug 2026
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Keeping powerful models available only to a chosen few is not a good strategy.
Their wordswe do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few.
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4 Aug 2026
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Their wordsi would rather be an optimist and work hard than a pessimist posting about why things won't work. it's much more difficult and the most likely path is failure, but society fails if people don't try. no amount of "it will never work" essays will drive society forward.
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10 Jun 2025
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Their wordsThere will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before.
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10 Jun 2025
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AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result.
Their words2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same.
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9 Feb 2025
Our reading
Their wordsWe will find new things to do, new ways to be useful to each other, and new ways to compete, but they may not look very much like the jobs of today.