28,548 claims · page 46 of 286
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| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | They use holistic criteria, which is mumbo-jumbo. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 24 Sep 2025 | I don’t believe in historical momentum. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 24 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 23 Sep 2025 | Lifetime observation: the fancier the restaurant, the fewer the smiles—and even fewer the laughs. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 23 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 23 Sep 2025 | Nuances are too difficult for electronic tulip peddlers. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 23 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 22 Sep 2025 | Over a lifespan I’ve observed that people who are petty, argumentative, competitive, envious, & grudging tend to—actually, always—fail… Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 22 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 22 Sep 2025 | Term shd be Judeophobe, just like Islamophobe & Christophobe. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 22 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 22 Sep 2025 | Markets are perverse; they trap people. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 22 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 22 Sep 2025 | The car may degrade with time, but the driver gets better. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 22 Sep 2025 | |
| Resolved true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 22 Sep 2025 | Spitz has been bullish on markets for the past 3 years. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 22 Sep 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 22 Sep 2025 | Taleb still uses Medium for publishing, and many people recommend Substack. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 22 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 22 Sep 2025 | Focusing on aging & the physical brain (particularly age-related shrinkage) is misleading. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 22 Sep 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 21 Sep 2025 | The 3rd edition of Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails is available and adds 3 chapters and an appendix on Max Entropy distributions including Tsallis Entropy. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 21 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 21 Sep 2025 | Life is dynamic, not static. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 21 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 21 Sep 2025 | Antifragile, published 13 years earlier, is on the NYT bestseller list the weekend of 2025-09-21. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 21 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 19 Sep 2025 | Saudi Arabia has entered a NATO-like Islamic alliance with Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons, and is part of a group of friends of China. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 19 Sep 2025 | Other |
| Mixed | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 19 Sep 2025 | Scientists who come up with new ideas and frameworks are more often experienced researchers than young ones. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 19 Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Prediction | 19 Sep 2025 | Egypt will be next to join the Saudi-Pakistan alliance, and Turkey will soon join informally. Nassim Taleb · Prediction · 19 Sep 2025 | Other |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 19 Sep 2025 | When you use nonlinear curves, the R^2 has no more meaning (multiple testing) & no longer unique least square. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 19 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 19 Sep 2025 | It is like flaneuring but not necessarily outside your office. Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 19 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 19 Sep 2025 | Psych Journals are not rigorous (e.g. IQ) Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 19 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Nassim Taleb | Not checkable | 18 Sep 2025 | I am monstrously impressed! Unlike your finance idiot, Grok gets the nuances! Nassim Taleb · Not checkable · 18 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I will totally say, when I first heard about this, it sounded very suspicious to me. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | And we will build new mechanisms to verify authenticity of communication. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | AI models are getting very good at biology and could help design biological weapons and engineer a COVID-style pandemic. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Biosecurity |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I think we will have to make it increasingly more detailed over time as people use this in different countries, there’s different laws… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I don’t think you should have to for banking. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | Sam Altman said it currently looks as though AI will not result in a radical concentration of power, though the trajectory could shift and would require adapting. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | About 15,000 people per week die by suicide worldwide. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Other global risks |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I don’t think we need to or should require biometrics to use the technology I don’t like. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Elon Musk helped start OpenAI. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | We have a very conservative stance on what ChatGPT will say in an answer. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | It looks like a suicide to me. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | OpenAI's current position on how ChatGPT handles suicide-related conversations is not yet final. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I can imagine a world like one principle we have is that we respect different societies’ laws. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I think individual users should be allowed to have a problem with gay people. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | On the other hand, this subjective experience of using that feels like it’s beyond just a really fancy calculator. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I think he got understandably upset. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | Very grateful for that. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | If I made kitchen knives, I would still understand that that’s going to kill some number of people per year. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I mean, the reason we wrote this long model spec and the reason we keep expanding it over time is so that you can see here is how we intend… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I think there is a mystery beyond my comprehension here going on. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | my instinct is the world is so much richer now than it was at the time of the industrial revolution that we can actually absorb more change… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | Well, yes, of course, ChatGPT’s official position of suicide is bad. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | AI-enabled impersonation scams are no longer a merely theoretical concern. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Other global risks |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | Well, I think like with your family you’ll have a code word that you change periodically and if you’re communicating with each other and… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Promise | 11 Sep 2025 | Sam Altman will double check and follow up with Tucker Carlson to confirm user data is never given to anyone else except under subpoena. Sam Altman · Promise · 11 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | OpenAI has a privacy policy that prevents it from selling users' ChatGPT data. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I don’t mean that it’s like my role to make the moral decisions, but I think it is my role to make sure that we are accurately reflecting… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Mixed | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Current AI models now hallucinate only a little bit. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | The world is rapidly heading toward people understanding that they need ways to verify calls and images aren't scams. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | Other global risks |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | The models should not be plagiarizing. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | In general, a principle that I normally like is to treat our adult users like adults. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | That scares me much less than a small number of people getting a ton more power. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I hope it didn’t, I really hope it doesn’t become mandatory. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I think it’d be very reasonable for us to say in cases of young people talking about suicide seriously, where we cannot get in touch with… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | Yeah, people are smart, society is resilient. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I think you should just be able to use ChatGPT from like any computer. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | But I am totally aware of the fact that there’s probably people in our military using it for advice about how to do their jobs. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | The reason we try to write this all out is I think people do need to know. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Asked about his spiritual views in a 2025 interview with Tucker Carlson, Sam Altman described his own background and outlook. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Other |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I suspect there’s a lot of people in the military talking to ChatGPT for advice. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | What I think ChatGPT should do is reflect that weighted average or whatever of humanity’s moral view, which will evolve over time. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | If I made rifles, I would spend a lot of time thinking about kind of a lot of the goal of rifles is to kill things, people, animals… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | Our stance there is that fair use is actually a good law for this. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Real people have recently begun adopting the speech patterns of language models, such as em dashes and unusual diction. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I think we should have the same concept for AI Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | But I think that is a coherent position, and that could be. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | Well, I don’t agree with it’ll be making them for us, but it will have to. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | The changes brought by AI will not be nearly as abrupt as the earlier sudden change Altman described as a point in favor of societal resilience. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I have different feelings now. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | OpenAI has a model behavior team. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | A job that I feel way less certain about what the future looks like for is computer programmers. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | No, not at all. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | We probably didn’t save their lives. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I really do. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | But I don’t think it’s in society’s interest for ChatGPT to help people build bioweapons. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Currently, when users discuss suicide, ChatGPT repeatedly suggests calling a suicide hotline but OpenAI does not call the authorities. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I might prefer, like, you know, like a fingerprint scan to access my Bitcoin wallet than, like, giving all my information to a bank. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I don’t think you should like have to provide biometrics to get on an airplane, for example. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | The problem of AI hallucination will be fully solved. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Earlier AI models hallucinated all the time. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Elon Musk later decided OpenAI was not on a trajectory to succeed, told its founders it had a zero percent chance of success, and stopped participating. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | Sam Altman said he feels optimistic that the government can be brought to understand the importance of AI privilege and enact it. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | And if that’s their considered belief, I don’t think the AI should tell them that they’re wrong or immoral or dumb. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | Not really, no. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | And I don’t actually worry about us getting the big moral decisions wrong. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | No, there’s nothing to me at all that feels divine about it or spiritual in any way. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I think it would be a great, great policy to adopt. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | Man, this doesn’t look like a suicide. I’m confused. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | But on the whole, I have been pleasantly surprised with the model’s ability to learn and apply a moral framework. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I didn’t say start with an easy one. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | Many current phone and computer customer support workers will lose their jobs to AI, which will do the work better. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | In the GPT-5 era OpenAI has made a huge amount of progress toward solving hallucination. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | Advanced AI will not feel like what the interviewer described; it will feel like a really smart computer that may advise people, and people will listen to it. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | OpenAI consulted hundreds of moral philosophers and technology ethics experts when designing its model behavior. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Sam Altman used to be very worried about AI concentrating power, as the earlier conception in the field could have led to such a world. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Asked by Tucker Carlson whether "it" would be legal to do, Sam Altman said he did not think it was legal. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | AI-driven job change will be a punctuated equilibrium moment, with much of it happening in a short period, though not dramatically different from the historical rate over the long run. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I believe there is something bigger going on than can be explained by physics. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | But I think his memory and his family deserve to be treated with a level of respect and grief that I don’t quite feel here. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 |
“I might prefer, like, you know, like a fingerprint scan to access my Bitcoin wallet than, like, giving all my information to a bank.”
Sam Altman 11 September 2025 Transcript: Sam Altman Interview on Tucker Carlson Show (Singju Post)
I might prefer, like, you know, like a fingerprint scan to access my Bitcoin wallet than, like, giving all my information to a bank.
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Sam Altman, “I might prefer, like, you know, like a fingerprint scan to access my Bitcoin wallet than, like, giving all my information to a bank.” (said 11 September 2025). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_a463569d3855, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a463569d3855
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