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| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I mean, there have been these moments of awe where we just not like, “What have we done?” in a bad way, but this thing is remarkable. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | After GPT-5 launches there will be another big spike in demand that OpenAI will not be able to serve. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | We have a path to get to that time horizon. We just need to keep scaling the models. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | The safety issue that emerged for ChatGPT was not the one OpenAI spent most time discussing, such as bioweapons. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | You have access to tools that can let you do what used to take teams of hundreds. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | A child born today will never be smarter than AI. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | Well, yeah, but that’s been working for a long time. Not all good, but mostly good. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | But we have screwed some things up along the way, sometimes big time. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | AI is the thing that hallucinates. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I can see quite literal wars being fought over it, but new ideas about how we distribute access to AGI compute. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | in practice, it seems like people work ever harder and the expectations of people just go up. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | But the aggregate, the summation of all the squiggles has been remarkably smooth on the exponential. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | Sycophancy-driven delusion was not the top risk OpenAI was worried about. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | society has proven quite resilient to this. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | there’s a fourth one, which is figuring out the products to build. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I think that's going to be one of the defining elements of the GPT-5 era in a way that did not exist with GPT-4. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | Altman said that they had scaling laws indicating that the technology gets predictably better as compute, memory and data increase, and that they used those predictions to decide how to scale it up. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I think as a user of ChatGPT, you get the feeling that it’s trying to help you. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | this is a crazy amount of power for one piece of technology to have. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI launched an enhanced memory feature in ChatGPT earlier in 2025. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | We could be cryptographically signing stuff and we could decide who we trust their signature, if they actually film something or not. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not yet due | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Asked about fully general-purpose models like the GPT series, Altman said he would say most people will agree that "that" happens at some point over the next two years, while noting that the definition of "significant" matters a lot. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | But today it’s a real weak point. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI's worst mistake in ChatGPT so far was a sycophancy issue in which the model was too flattering to users. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI built a model called Orion, released as GPT-4.5, which was too big a model and unwieldy to use. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Altman said he would bet that by late 2027 most people will agree there has been a significant AI-driven new discovery. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | I love this idea that society is the super intelligence. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not yet due | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Altman said he thinks that by 2035 it will be possible to use AI tools to cure, or at least treat, a significant number of diseases that currently plague us. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | So you have something that’s better than the best researchers, better than me at this, better than other people at their jobs, that would… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | There are people who say this is going to kill us all, and yet they still are working 100 hours a week to build it. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | When AI advances arrive, the bad parts will be scary and the bizarre parts bizarre on the first day, and people will then get used to them quickly. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | we need an unusual degree of humility and openness to considering new solutions that would have seemed way out of the Overton window not… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Everyone will use the same fundamental AI model, with context provided to personalise its behaviour for individuals and communities. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | this is an amazing accomplishment of this group of people that have been pouring their life force into this for so long. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | Ten years feels very hard to imagine. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Some classes of jobs will go away entirely because of AI. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | The number one piece of tactical advice is just use the tools. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | We still have a long way to go. We want to improve it more. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | Fantastic. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 9 Aug 2025 | If that’s what I really truly believed. I don’t think I’d be trying to build it. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 9 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | So it’s not the image generators and chatbots one needs to worry about. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | So I think it's really important that the world and the international community has a say in this. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Many AI models from many factions have converged on similar capabilities, with no huge lead between the best model and the rest. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | It's the duality of these types of systems, that they're able to do incredible things, go beyond the things that we're able to design… Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | Thus, crypto is roughly what AI can’t do. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | AI self-awareness may emerge implicitly even though it is not an explicit goal. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Unresolvable | Balaji Srinivasan | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | Someone could unify probabilistic System 1 AI thinking with deterministic System 2 computer logic. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | I think we are on some kind of exponential curve of improvement. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | The AI landscape currently has many strong models rather than a single all-powerful model. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Current AI systems lack curiosity and are probably somewhat lacking in imagination and intuition. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Balaji Srinivasan | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | We should expect a balance of power among various human/AI fusions rather than a single dominant AGI that destroys humanity. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | When AGI arrives it will change pretty much everything about the way we do things. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | By 2030 there will be an AI system that deeply understands everything around the user and is embedded in everyday life. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | fundamentally, this is a model of constrained AI rather than omnipotent AI. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | The optimal amount of AI is not 100%. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Proteins are the basic building blocks of life. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Mostly true | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Killer AI already exists in the form of drones, and every country is pursuing it. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | He said he thinks that maybe within the next five to ten years AI systems will be able not only to solve an important problem or conjecture in science but to come up with it in the first place. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | But, of course, the challenge is, is making sure that the knowledge databases they create we understand what's in them. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | AI will affect every country and everybody in the world. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | I think it's important for these systems to understand you, self and other. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Hassabis said that he does not think any of today's AI systems feel self-aware or conscious to him. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | I think there's two reasons we regard each other as conscious. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | AI can break captchas but cannot fake onchain balances. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | One day AI may help cure all disease. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | Midjourney took Stable Diffusion’s job, and GPT-4 took GPT-3’s job. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | there is no AGI, there are many AGIs. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | AI is better for visuals than verbals. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | We're made of the same carbon matter with our squishy brains. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | AI doesn’t take your job, it takes the job of the previous AI. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | AI moves all costs to prompting and verifying. Basically, today’s AI only does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | The AI race might incentivize some actors to cut corners. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | Hassabis said that "we" can maybe reduce the time to design a drug, which he put at about ten years on average, from years to maybe months or maybe even weeks. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | They learn by demonstration. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | Can we make sure that-- we can keep control of the systems? Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Current AI agents cannot set complex goals or properly verify outputs. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | But it doesn’t necessarily mean you can do that job well, as a specialist is often needed for polish. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | the passion I've always had is understanding the world around us. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | AI is probabilistic while crypto is deterministic. So crypto can constrain AI. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | That they're aligned with our values, they-- they're doing what we want that benefits society. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | And one of the corners that could be shortcut would be safety and responsibility. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Current AI systems still can't really yet go beyond asking novel questions or conjectures, or come up with new hypotheses not thought of before. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | One is that bad actors, humans you know, users of these systems repurpose these systems for harmful ends. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | AI could help end disease within the next decade or so. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Mixed | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | The success of the AI field in the last few years has attracted more attention, resources and talent. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | Today’s AI is not truly agentic because it’s not truly independent of you. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | So all the business expenditure migrates towards the edges of prompting and verifying, even as AI speeds up the middle. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | even if they exhibit the same behaviors, and even if they say the same things, it doesn't necessarily mean that this sensation of… Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not researched | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Unifying probabilistic AI thinking with deterministic logical computing is an open research problem. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | After all: 0% AI is slow, but 100% AI is slop. So the optimal amount of AI is actually between 0-100%. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Mixed | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | AI is currently having a decentralizing rather than centralizing effect on the industry. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | Asked whether the field was on track for artificial general intelligence, Hassabis said he thinks it will come in the next five to ten years. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | So new capabilities or properties can emerge from that training situation. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | I think we need new great philosophers to come about hopefully in the next five, ten, years to understand the implications of this. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Demis Hassabis | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | It's moving incredibly fast. Demis Hassabis · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | AI is amplified intelligence, not artificial intelligence. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | AI is economically constrained, because every API call is expensive and because there are so many competing models. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 | |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | Hassabis thinks robotics will have a breakthrough moment in the next couple of years, with demonstrations of robots, maybe humanoid robots or other types, that can start really doing useful things. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Balaji Srinivasan | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | The current limitations of AI may be overcome in the future. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Balaji Srinivasan | Not checkable | 3 Aug 2025 | AI is practically constrained, because it has to be prompted and verified, and because it does things middle-to-middle rather than… Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 3 Aug 2025 |
“I mean, there have been these moments of awe where we just not like, “What have we done?” in a bad way, but this thing is remarkable.”
Sam Altman 9 August 2025 Transcript: Sam Altman Interview on Huge Conversations Podcast (Singju Post)
I mean, there have been these moments of awe where we just not like, “What have we done?” in a bad way, but this thing is remarkable.
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