Sam Altman
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Sam Altman is The Visionary in the fullest sense, publicly committed to artificial general intelligence as a civilisational turning point. What distinguishes his leadership at OpenAI is the fusion of long-horizon thinking with commercial pragmatism, converting abstract futures into concrete launches such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 that reshaped public discourse on AI. By actively courting policymakers, investors, and researchers across competing institutions, he leads as someone building consensus around a future only he can fully see.
“I prep for survival. I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”
“We are already in the phase of co-evolution, the AIs affect, effect, and infect us, and then we improve the AI. We build more computing power and run the AI on it, and it figures out how to build even better chips.”
“Trust the exponential. Flat looking backwards, vertical looking forwards.”
Wikiquote: “Public record read”
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