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Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI · OpenAI

CEO of OpenAI, known for public predictions about AI timelines, regulation, and long‑term societal impacts.

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2026

If we don't have models by 2030 that are extraordinarily capable and do things that we ourselves cannot do, I'd be very surprised.
8/4/2026 · unresolved
If by 2030 AI systems cannot perform tasks beyond human ability, I would be very surprised.
8/4/2026 · AI → AGI · unresolved
30 to 40 percent of the tasks that happen in the economy today will get done by AI in the not very distant future.
8/4/2026 · Tech → Automation · unresolved
By around 2028, the total computational cognitive capacity inside data centers might exceed that of the human population.
3/14/2026 · unresolved
Competitive advantage in AI will shift away from algorithms and toward physical infrastructure, access to massive training data, and system integration at scale.
3/14/2026 · AI · unresolved
Entire companies could eventually operate with very small human teams supervising large fleets of AI agents.
3/14/2026 · unresolved
Society may experience deflation driven by AI abundance where living standards improve while traditional economic metrics like GDP decline.
3/14/2026 · AI · unresolved
We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water, and people buy it on demand to do whatever they want.
3/14/2026 · AI · unresolved
Future AI systems could run autonomous projects lasting weeks, continuously working with full organizational context, functioning less like chatbots and more like digital employees that never log off.
3/14/2026 · AI · unresolved

2023

AI systems will exceed human capabilities in many domains within the next decade
6/1/2023 · AI → AGI · unresolved