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Sam Altman

What Sam Altman thinks about AI and jobs

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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5 dated positions, 2024 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Sam Altman has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingIn this era fluency with AI tools beats years of accumulated experience, so seniority is now a liability rather than an edge.

    Their wordsbut I would I would bet that this generally will cut against many years of experience in favor of people who have a lot of fluency with the tools.

    ↗Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"youtube.com 5th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe test of whether an AI transition went well is simply whether people's freedom, agency and quality of time go up every single year.

    Their wordsif every year people have more freedom and agency to spend more of their time doing the stuff they want to do and they feel like the quality of life and the quality of their time is going up year after year, we'll probably be mostly okay.

    ↗Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"youtube.com 19th of 20 in this recording

  4. 14 months earlier

  5. Our readingAI will eliminate whole classes of jobs, but the wealth it creates will make policy responses affordable that were previously unthinkable.

    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.

    ↗The Gentle Singularityblog.samaltman.com

  6. 4 months earlier

  7. Our readingPeople will find new kinds of useful work as AI advances, though it will not resemble the jobs of today.

    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.

    ↗Three Observationsblog.samaltman.com

  8. 11 months earlier

  9. Our readingThe useful question about AI and work is not what percentage of jobs it will replace but what percentage of tasks it will do, over ever-longer time horizons.

    Their wordsThe way I think about it is not what percent of jobs AI will do, but what percent of tasks will AI do on over one time horizon. So if you think of all of the five-second tasks in the economy, five minute tasks, the five-hour tasks, maybe even the five-day tasks, how many of those can AI do?

    ↗Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419youtube.com 6th of 20 in this recording