Sam Altman
15 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 23, 2026 by Sam Altman · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Aug 23, 2026 negative
Aug 23, 2026 positive
Altman: External demos for eminent guests motivate researchers better than fake deadlines
“We also learned the incredible power of external demos for like an eminent person that the researchers really wanted to impress. And then we learned a bunch of things that like didn't work like fake deadlines.”
Aug 23, 2026 positive
Altman: OpenAI used internal leaderboards to simulate missing customer signals
“One of the things that worked actually is during the Dota two days when we were trying to use RL to beat this video, beat people at a video game, we put up like a leaderboard and people could just see how different ideas were performing and what was You know, …”
Aug 23, 2026 negative
Altman: The two biggest AI risks are control loss and centralized power
“Maybe the two big risks that I'm most worried about with AI, which are a little bit in tension. One is like a loss of control where, you know, AI somehow just becomes too powerful in a way that we can't guarantee the control we want. And the other is power get…”
Aug 23, 2026 bullish
Aug 23, 2026 positive
Altman: Working as an investor first gives founders crucial decision pattern matching
“You get this unbelievable set of learnings and pattern matching if you really study and watch companies as an investor that has been super helpful to me running openai but it's like it's the opposite normal direction so it's just like a very rare thing and i s…”
Aug 23, 2026 positive
Altman: OpenAI launched ChatGPT knowing it was early and embarrassing
“I don't even think I asked him before we launched HGPT, like, Hey, do you think we should launch this thing? But I knew what he would say. I knew it was still early. I knew it was still embarrassing. And I knew the right thing was to like, get it out and get i…”
Aug 23, 2026 positive
Altman: Paul Graham and Peter Thiel are sounding boards for non-obvious problems
“In, in terms of questions of just, like, you know, business and the world, for a long time in my career, Paul Graham and Peter Thiel have been two of the people that I have learned the most from about lots of different phases of my career and are still the two…”
Aug 23, 2026
Altman: I Still Manually Do Email and Tasks Despite Having Codex
“The thing to me that feels most psychologically inconsistent about myself is that I have for 20 years been using computers the same way. I now have A magic thing called codex. So do you, so does everybody. That means I should completely be using my computer in…”
Aug 23, 2026 neutral
Aug 23, 2026
Aug 23, 2026 neutral
Altman: AI Is Currently in Its Pre-iPhone Era
“The phase that we're in now reminds me of like smartphones before the iPhone. I was like an early adopter. I had like a Palm Trio in, you know, 2003 or four or whatever. You ever had a sidekick? I never had a sidekick. I thought they were super cool. I wanted …”
Aug 23, 2026 positive
Aug 23, 2026 neutral
Altman: I was wrong to expect immediate software disruption after GPT-4
“When we got to GBT four, which was back in 20, 23, I think that very quickly after that, there was going to be much more disruption in software business being up for grabs right, right away than turned out to be. And the thing that I think I was wrong about a …”
Aug 23, 2026 neutral
Altman: Superintelligence will not fundamentally alter human social wiring
“This is why I think, like, the world is, on the whole, not going to be that different. Even with superintelligence, like, people are still going to be very fundamentally wired to care about other people, to want to be around other people to interact with other…”