Home Speakers Sam Altman Quote My personal takeaway from the last several years, and take on why there has been so much Shakespearean drama between the companies in our field, comes down to this: “Once you see AGI you can’t unsee it.”
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The fear and anxiety about AI is justified; we are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long time, and perhaps ever. Blog Untitled post, April 2026 Apr 10, 2026
The only solution I can come up with is to orient towards sharing the technology with people broadly, and for no one to have the ring. Blog Abundant Intelligence Sep 23, 2025
As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. Blog Abundant Intelligence (blog post) Sep 23, 2025
Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week. Blog Abundant Intelligence Sep 23, 2025
Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. Or with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to provide customized tutoring to every student on earth. Blog The Gentle Singularity (blog post) Jun 10, 2025
2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same. 2026 will likely see the arrival of systems that can figure out novel insights. Blog The Gentle Singularity Jun 10, 2025
As datacenter production gets automated, the cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity. Blog The Gentle Singularity Jun 10, 2025
If we can do a decade’s worth of research in a year, or a month, then the rate of progress will obviously be quite different. Blog The Gentle Singularity Jun 10, 2025
In some big sense, ChatGPT is already more powerful than any human who has ever lived. Blog The Gentle Singularity Jun 10, 2025
Of course this isn’t the same thing as an AI system completely autonomously updating its own code, but nevertheless this is a larval version of recursive self-improvement. Blog The Gentle Singularity Jun 10, 2025
OpenAI is a lot of things now, but before anything else, we are a superintelligence research company. Blog The Gentle Singularity (blog post) Jun 10, 2025
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Blog The Gentle Singularity Jun 10, 2025
There 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. Blog The Gentle Singularity Jun 10, 2025
This is how the singularity goes: wonders become routine, and then table stakes. Blog The Gentle Singularity Jun 10, 2025
We do not know how far beyond human-level intelligence we can go, but we are about to find out. Blog Three Observations Feb 9, 2025
AGI will be the biggest lever ever on human willfulness, and enable individual people to have more impact than ever before, not less. Blog Three Observations Feb 9, 2025
Anyone in 2035 should be able to marshall the intellectual capacity equivalent to everyone in 2025; everyone should have access to unlimited genius to direct however they can imagine. Blog Three Observations (blog post) Feb 9, 2025
The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use. Blog Three Observations Feb 9, 2025
In a decade, perhaps everyone on earth will be capable of accomplishing more than the most impactful person can today. Blog Three Observations Feb 9, 2025
In particular, it does seem like the balance of power between capital and labor could easily get messed up, and this may require early intervention. Blog Three Observations Feb 9, 2025
The intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it. Blog Three Observations Feb 9, 2025
The socioeconomic value of linearly increasing intelligence is super-exponential in nature. A consequence of this is that we see no reason for exponentially increasing investment to stop in the near future. Blog Reflections (blog post) Jan 6, 2025
We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies. Blog Reflections Jan 5, 2025
Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own, and in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity.
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It’s time to plan for this, because AI systems are likely to get better a lot faster than people expect, and as they become more advanced we should expect profound changes to happen to people and to society. Talk Import AI 458 / 2026 Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture, Oxford May 26, 2026
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And at this point we have line of sight to much better models that are coming this year, and the amount of pain within OpenAI that we’ve had to decide how to allocate compute goes up, not down, over time. Blog Is there an aggregate demand problem in an AGI world? Feb 24, 2026
If AI produces a lot more stuff, income is generated from that and the economy keeps going, whether or not the resulting distribution pleases your sense of morality. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: We are near the end of the exponential Feb 13, 2026
I really do believe that we could have models that are a country of geniuses in the data center in one to two years. About this quote Said by Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI Where Untitled post, April 2026 Topics AGI Company Source blog.samaltman.com/2279512 A quote is one moment, not the whole argument. Read it in context at the source.
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