By 2015 Sam Altman had become convinced that powerful AI was really going to happen and decided to try building it.
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Concerns his personal conviction and decision timing, an inner state known mainly to him.
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Sam Altman, “By 2015 Sam Altman had become convinced that powerful AI was really going to happen and decided to try building it.” (said 4 September 2026). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_33f0ff0b0edb, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_33f0ff0b0edb
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More factual claims by Sam Altman
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“The very end of 2015, we announced it, and then the first day of work was like January of 2016.”
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“I was always an AI nerd. I was a real sci-fi nerd as a kid.”
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“he later decided that we weren’t on a trajectory to be successful and he didn’t want to.”
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“He helped us start OpenAI.”
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“When we started, it was four and a half years before we had our first product and it was very uncertain.”
When OpenAI started, it took four and a half years before it had its first product.
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