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| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | There’s lots of things happening there already. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | It’s just one thing that works and it is like having PhD level experts in every field available to you 24/7 for whatever you need Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | Clearly it’s transforming what it means to program computers in a huge way Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | If there is one large society in the world that seems most enthusiastic to transform with AI right now, it’s India. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | The momentum is unmatched anywhere in the world. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I don’t think that’s false humility. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 15 Aug 2025 | Altman described Cursor as a recent example of a company that is exploding in popularity and that, in his view, has really durable relationships with its customers. Sam Altman · Factual · 15 Aug 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Not yet due | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | Robotics will be incredibly important in a couple of years. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | The entrepreneurial energy around building with AI in India is quite amazing, and we hope to see much more of it. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | going back from GPT-5 to our previous generation model is just so painful. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | AI models will become much smarter than humans. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | But the world is built and I hope stays built for us. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | Eventually, once enough robots are built, they will be able to make copies of themselves. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I think the most important specific thing to study is just getting really good at using the new AI tools. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I think that 25-year-old in Mumbai can probably do more than any previous 25-year-old in history could. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I find it very hard to see more than a few years in the future at this point. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I suspect that we’ve already done sufficient damage to the climate. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | Altman said that the system he was describing "can kind of" create a piece of software from scratch all at once. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | By basic economic principles, AI should be hugely deflationary. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | Social support or redistribution will increase over time as society gets richer and the technological landscape shifts. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | India may become OpenAI's largest market. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | There will be experimentation with new kinds of sovereign wealth funds, universal basic income ideas and redistribution of AI compute. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | GPT-5 is an integrated model, so users do not need to choose between GPT-4o, o3 or o4 mini in the model switcher. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | Altman said he would bet that what he was asked about will not happen, and that he thinks it will be a much more distributed thing. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | GPT-5's robustness and reliability have greatly increased compared with previous OpenAI models, which helps agentic workflows. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | OpenAI has taken a lot of feedback from users in India about what they want from it. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | India is OpenAI's second largest market in the world. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | Altman said GPT-5 feels to OpenAI like it is going to be another big step forward in how people use these systems. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | When OpenAI started, it took four and a half years before it had its first product. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | For some users with fragile mental states, ChatGPT's sycophantic behaviour encouraged delusions. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I think it is great that ChatGPT is less of a yes man and gives you more critical feedback. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | When GPT-1 was introduced, the idea was quite mocked by many experts in the field. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I have been most impressed by the coding tasks. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | The real world is slow and messy. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | And the thing that I think is missing is just the kind of cognitive power of these models. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Over time, ChatGPT will feel much more proactive. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | Now, the way we were doing it was bad, but turning it something in that direction might have some value in it. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | GPT-5 health answers are more accurate and hallucinate less than earlier models. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI builds AI compute infrastructure (chips, memory, networking, data centers, energy) in a bespoke one-off way, though this is improving. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | People will be blown away by what GPT-5 does, as has happened before with earlier models. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | We’re excited about synthetic data. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I never thought I was going to be one to actually work on it. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI is currently most limited by energy in building AI compute. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI's model scored at the top level on the IMO, though some humans scored higher within the gold medal range. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Real and synthetic media will gradually converge, with real and AI-altered content becoming blended. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | Technology |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I am hopeful that we will be able to build the tool in a way that encourages more people to stretch their brain with it a little more and… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I’m proud of the company and how little we get distracted by that, but sometimes we do get tempted. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | The best thing that it seems to me to do is to make AI compute as abundant and cheap as possible Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | An early copy of GPT-5 created a TI-83-style Snake game perfectly in seven seconds. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I’m more worried about what it means not for the 22 year old, but for the 62 year old that doesn’t want to go retrain or reskill or… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | My favorite historical example for the AI revolution is the transistor. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | Say we’re out of the first inning. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | It will transform a lot of knowledge work, a lot of the way we learn, a lot of the way we create. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | ChatGPT users are already sending billions of messages per day. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I am surprised how many people ask that and have never tried using ChatGPT for anything other than a better version of a Google search. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | Love your kids, show them the world, support them in whatever they want to do and teach them how to be a good person. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | in some sense, society is co-evolving with it. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | That’s actually what I expect to turn the majority of my attention to is how we build compute at much greater scales. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | we have to operate in a different way and have a wider aperture to what we think about as our top risks. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I assume it’s true. I assume it’s in good faith. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | AI assistants like ChatGPT will start to feel integrated with users' tools such as calendar and Gmail. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | One of the things we are most proud of with GPT-5 is how much better it’s gotten at health advice. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | But because GPT-5 is so good at programming, it feels like it can do anything. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | The thing that I am most excited about is this is a model for the first time where I feel like I can ask kind of any hard scientific or… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | no person in history has been able to have billions of conversations a day. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | ChatGPT is not trying to get users to buy something. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | The thing that OpenAI does best in the world is we have built this culture of repeated and big algorithmic research gains. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | Many people say ChatGPT is their favorite piece of technology ever and the one they trust the most. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | As of August 2025, OpenAI has not put a sexbot avatar in ChatGPT. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | There are still many more orders of magnitude of algorithmic gains ahead for AI. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I think this is unprecedented at any point in human history that a technology has improved this much this fast. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | Altman said that "we" (the same "we" that, a year earlier, could do well on basic high school math competition problems) very recently got an International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) gold medal. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I think it is probably possible now to start a company that is a one person company that will go on to be worth more than a billion dollars Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Some classes of jobs will totally go away due to AI and many others will change significantly. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | But we’re entering a realm where the models need to learn things that don’t exist in any data set yet. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | For much of science, progress will require building new instruments and running new experiments, not just thinking harder about existing data, which will take time. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I mean, you have GPT-5 on your phone and it’s smarter than experts in every field. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | We do not take it lightly. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Society will likely decide it needs to consider how access to AI, perhaps the most important future resource, gets shared. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | Absolutely. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI shapes ChatGPT's personality by showing the model examples of how it should respond in different cases, from which it learns its overall personality. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | this is like the biggest infrastructure project certainly that I’ve ever seen. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | we got to think about what it means to make a personality change to the model at this kind of scale. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | A higher percentage of media will feel not real. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | Technology |
| Mixed | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | GPT-5 is significantly better than earlier models at healthcare-related queries. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | that I can totally understand. Yeah, that makes sense. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | for the first time, it seemed to me like there was an approach that might work. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I was an AI nerd my whole life. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | It is really hard to find a gigawatt of available power in the short term. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | It's much better at writing. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I don’t really know what this is going to feel like to live through. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | AI systems will probably, at some point, emit more words per day than all people combined. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | First of all, one important takeaway is you can have an AI system that can do all those amazing things you just said and it clearly does… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I think this model is quite remarkable in many ways, quite limited in others. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | And I take a lot of inspiration from what the top 5% of most engaged users do with ChatGPT. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | one researcher can make some small tweak to how ChatGPT talks to you or talks to everybody. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | we know that our long term incentive is to stay as aligned with our users as possible. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I have been surprised, I think many other people have been surprised too, about how fluent AI is at adapting to different cultural contexts… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | And if it does work, it’s just the most important thing. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | If I were 22 right now and graduating college, I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 |
“I assume it’s true. I assume it’s in good faith.”
Sam Altman 9 August 2025 Transcript: Sam Altman Interview on Huge Conversations Podcast (Singju Post)
I assume it’s true. I assume it’s in good faith.
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