‘Kids will be fine; I'm worried about…': Sam Altman says his kid will probably not attend college
, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker
OpenAI
, has offered his take on the
future of education
, suggesting his own child will "probably not" attend college. He said that AI will change education, noting that the change will possibly come in 18 years. He said that education is 'going to feel very different' when a new generation will not know a world without AI.
Speaking on the "This Past Weekend" podcast with comedian Theo Von, Altman suggested that AI will not 'kill' education but it will evolve. Altman predicted that future generations, including his own children, will grow up in a reality where they will never be 'smarter than AI' and will never know a world where products and services aren't intellectually superior to them.
'In that world, education is going to feel very different. I already think college is, like, maybe not working great for most people, but I think if you fast-forward 18 years it's going to look like a very, very different thing,' Altman stated.
Altman has 'deep worries' about technology's impact on kids
While Altman admitted to having "deep worries" about technology's broader impact on children and their development, specifically citing the "dopamine hit" from short-form video, his primary concern lies not with the youth, but with adults. He believes the true challenge of advancing AI will be whether older generations can effectively adapt to the new technological paradigm.
'I actually think the kids will be fine; I'm worried about the parents,' he explained.
'If you look at the history of the world when there's a new technology—people that grow up with it, they're always fluent. They always figure out what to do. They always learn new kinds of jobs. But if you're like a 50-year-old and you have to kind of learn how to do things in a very different way, that doesn't always work,' he said.
He explained it by stating that our parents did not grow up with computers but for the current generation, computers were always there.
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