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Altman: Better AI will strengthen non-tech businesses offering authentic experiences
“The better AI gets, the more some businesses that have nothing to do with AI, I think will be harder to compete with because we'll really want these like authentic non-technological experiences, or we'll care more about Sports teams or whatever. So no, not, no…”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 3:09 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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Altman: AI scientific discovery will be more important than task automation
“Like, I think this is, I think this will be one of the most important areas, even more important than automation of other tasks that AI can do just to help us understand more things.”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 25:51 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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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…”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 29:50 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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Altman: AI will drive the greatest small-business creation boom in history
“And we are about to see the greatest boom in people starting smaller businesses that we have ever seen. I think AI is empowering that.”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 43:56 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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Altman: OpenAI Will Be Best Across the Entire Cost-Performance Curve
“At every point on the cost curve, cost performance curve, we will be the best.”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 50:15 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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