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Business Insider
9 hours ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Sam Altman hopes AGI will allow people to have more kids in the future
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says having a kid has been "amazing" and thinks everyone else should have one, too. He also says AGI could maybe help with that. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a still theoretical version of AI that reasons as well as humans. Achieving AGI is the ultimate goal of many of the leading AI companies and is what's largely driving the AI talent wars. Meanwhile, the world's population growth is slowing down. In the United States, Gen Z and millennials are delaying having children or not having children at all to focus on their financial stability. Some prominent futurists, including Altman, say that's a cause for concern. He said this trend is a "real problem" during an episode of "People by WTF" with Nikhil Kamath on Thursday. Altman, who had his first child earlier this year, said he hopes that building families and creating community "will become far more important in a post-AGI world." He said he thinks this will be possible because AGI will allow for a world "where people have more abundance, more time, more resources, and potential, and ability." As AI progresses and becomes a more useful tool, he says society will grow richer and there will be more social support. "I think it's pretty clear that family and community are two of the things that make us the happiest, and I hope we will turn back to that," Altman said. When Kamath asked about Altman's own experience with fatherhood, the CEO said he strongly recommends having children. "It felt like the most important and meaningful and fulfilling thing I could imagine doing," he said. Altman has described himself as "extremely kid-pilled" and said that in the first weeks of being a dad, he was "constantly" asking ChatGPT questions. Using AI is a skill that he says he plans to pass down to his children. "My kids will never be smarter than AI," Altman said on an episode of The OpenAI Podcast in June. "They will grow up vastly more capable than we grew up, and able to do things that we cannot imagine, and they'll be really good at using AI." Altman isn't the only prominent CEO in the AI industry who's passionate about procreation. Elon Musk, the founder of Grok-maker xAI, among other companies, has fathered over 10 known children. Musk has said he's "doing his best to help the underpopulation crisis." "A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far," Musk said in an X post in 2022.
Time of India
a day ago
- Business
- Time of India
Sam Altman says ‘25-year-olds in Mumbai or Bengaluru have never had more power,' shares bold vision for the future on Nikhil Kamath's podcast
From Code to Companies, AI Levels the Playing Field A Future Built on Ideas, Not Just Resources Why Family and Community Still Matter When Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath asked Sam Altman to imagine the life of a 25-year-old in Mumbai or Bengaluru, the OpenAI chief did not hesitate. For Altman, this is not just a good time to be starting out — it may be the best moment in on Kamath's WTF podcast, Altman painted an optimistic picture of what artificial intelligence means for young Indians entering the workforce. 'I think this is probably the most exciting time to be starting out one's career, maybe ever,' he said, according to the show's believes today's 25-year-old can achieve what once took decades of experience or large teams. Whether in programming, media creation, or entrepreneurship, tools like OpenAI's latest GPT-5 can act as a co-founder, strategist, and operations team rolled into one.'You could use GPT-5 to help you write the software for a product, handle customer support, draft marketing plans, even review legal documents,' he explained. 'All of these things that once required a lot of expertise, you now have AI to help you do.'For India specifically, Altman sees huge potential. 'If there is one large society in the world that seems most enthusiastic to transform with AI right now, it's India,' he told Kamath, praising the entrepreneurial energy and rapid adoption of AI-driven tools. He added that Indian user feedback has already shaped OpenAI's stressed that the AI era is an 'open canvas,' where constraints are fewer than ever before and creativity becomes the main differentiator. For young founders, that means the ability to launch ambitious projects with minimal resources. For those seeking jobs, it opens pathways into industries like science, software development, and emerging media, where AI accelerates what individuals can conversation took a personal turn when Kamath asked Altman about parenthood. Describing it as 'the coolest, most amazing, most emotionally overwhelming experience,' Altman said starting a family has been more fulfilling than he also shared a broader societal view: in a post-AGI world, family and community should regain importance. 'It's a problem for society that those things have been in retreat,' he said, expressing hope that with more abundance and time, people will turn back to what makes them message to a hypothetical 25-year-old in Mumbai or Bengaluru was clear: the world is in a rare moment where technology amplifies individual capability to unprecedented levels. With AI as a partner, opportunities are no longer limited by geography or resources — they're limited only by the boldness of one's ideas.
Economic Times
2 days ago
- Business
- Economic Times
Sam Altman says ‘25-year-olds in Mumbai or Bengaluru have never had more power,' shares bold vision for the future on Nikhil Kamath's podcast
Synopsis OpenAI chief Sam Altman believes it is the best time to start a career. He says AI tools like GPT-5 can help young Indians. It can assist in software, customer support, and marketing. Altman notes India's enthusiasm for AI transformation. He emphasizes that AI creates an open canvas. He also hopes family and community will regain importance. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes young Indians are entering the workforce at the most exciting time in history, thanks to AI. Speaking on Nikhil Kamath's podcast, Altman highlighted AI's potential to level the playing field, enabling individuals to achieve more with fewer resources. (Image: Screenshots/YouTube) When Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath asked Sam Altman to imagine the life of a 25-year-old in Mumbai or Bengaluru, the OpenAI chief did not hesitate. For Altman, this is not just a good time to be starting out — it may be the best moment in history. Speaking on Kamath's WTF podcast, Altman painted an optimistic picture of what artificial intelligence means for young Indians entering the workforce. 'I think this is probably the most exciting time to be starting out one's career, maybe ever,' he said, according to the show's transcript. Altman believes today's 25-year-old can achieve what once took decades of experience or large teams. Whether in programming, media creation, or entrepreneurship, tools like OpenAI's latest GPT-5 can act as a co-founder, strategist, and operations team rolled into one. 'You could use GPT-5 to help you write the software for a product, handle customer support, draft marketing plans, even review legal documents,' he explained. 'All of these things that once required a lot of expertise, you now have AI to help you do.' For India specifically, Altman sees huge potential. 'If there is one large society in the world that seems most enthusiastic to transform with AI right now, it's India,' he told Kamath, praising the entrepreneurial energy and rapid adoption of AI-driven tools. He added that Indian user feedback has already shaped OpenAI's products. Altman stressed that the AI era is an 'open canvas,' where constraints are fewer than ever before and creativity becomes the main differentiator. For young founders, that means the ability to launch ambitious projects with minimal resources. For those seeking jobs, it opens pathways into industries like science, software development, and emerging media, where AI accelerates what individuals can produce. The conversation took a personal turn when Kamath asked Altman about parenthood. Describing it as 'the coolest, most amazing, most emotionally overwhelming experience,' Altman said starting a family has been more fulfilling than he imagined. He also shared a broader societal view: in a post-AGI world, family and community should regain importance. 'It's a problem for society that those things have been in retreat,' he said, expressing hope that with more abundance and time, people will turn back to what makes them happiest. Altman's message to a hypothetical 25-year-old in Mumbai or Bengaluru was clear: the world is in a rare moment where technology amplifies individual capability to unprecedented levels. With AI as a partner, opportunities are no longer limited by geography or resources — they're limited only by the boldness of one's ideas.
Business Insider
17-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
OpenAI is under 'unprecedented pressure to grow,' says its new recruiting head
OpenAI is under "unprecedented pressure to grow" as it races to scale in the era of artificial general intelligence, said Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, the tech giant's newly appointed head of recruiting. "If we were a rocket (wait, we're one), we'd be at MaxQ — maximum dynamic pressure," he wrote in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday announcing his new role. "Recruiting has never been more important." Candela joined OpenAI in 2024 as head of preparedness, where he worked on building safer AI systems. He holds a Ph.D. in machine learning and has spent decades in the field, including more than nine years at Facebook, where he led the company's machine learning group and later its responsible AI efforts. His new position comes at a time when OpenAI — and the broader AI sector — is rethinking what hiring looks like in a world shaped by the very technologies it's building. The company has grown almost tenfold over the past two and a half years, Candela said. "The world is looking to us to learn how to grow and how to work together in an AGI era," he added. "How should we use AGI for recruiting? Whom should we hire in a post-AGI world?" The company lists 330 open jobs, from a sales gig in Korea to postings for lawyers in San Francisco. OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. The race for AI talent Candela's comments come as OpenAI tries to stay ahead in the AI talent war. In May, OpenAI announced it was buying an AI hardware startup from Jony Ive, Apple's former design chief, for nearly $6.5 billion. Ive's startup, IO, is set to work with OpenAI's research, engineering, and product teams. Sam Altman also said in the same month that he had hired Fidji Simo, Instacart's chair and CEO, as his new CEO of applications. "I cannot imagine a better new team member to help us scale the next 10x (or 100x, let's see)," Altman wrote in a post on X. The hiring builds on last June's appointments of Sarah Friar, the former CEO of Nextdoor, as chief financial officer, and Kevin Weil, a former Meta and Twitter exec, as chief product officer. OpenAI is not alone in chasing top AI talent. Just last week, Meta announced a nearly $15 billion investment in data company Scale AI — and brought over its CEO Alexandr Wang to join the tech giant's AI push. Meta now owns a 49% stake in the company, which also counts OpenAI as a major customer.
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
What Happens When AI Replaces Workers?
Credit - mikkelwilliam—Getty Images On Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declared AI could eliminate half of all entry level white collar jobs within five years. Last week, a senior LinkedIn executive reported that AI is already starting to take jobs from new grads. In April, Fiverr's CEO made it clear: 'AI is coming for your job. Heck, it's coming for my job too.' Even the new Pope is warning about AI's dramatic potential to reshape our economy. Why do they think this? The stated goal of the major AI companies is to build artificial general intelligence, or AGI, defined as 'a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.' This isn't empty rhetoric—companies are spending over a trillion dollars to build towards AGI. And governments around the world are supporting the race to develop this technology. They're on track to succeed. Today's AI models can score as well as humans on many standardized tests. They are better competitive programmers than most programming professionals. They beat everyone except the top experts in science questions. As a result, AI industry leaders believe they could achieve AGI sometime between 2026 and 2035. Among insiders at the top AI companies, it's the near-consensus opinion that the day of most people's technological unemployment, where they lose their jobs to AI, will arrive soon. AGI is coming for every part of the labor market. It will hit white collar workplaces first, and soon after will reach blue collar workplaces as robotics advances. In the post-AGI world, an AI can likely do your work better and cheaper than you. While training a frontier AI model is expensive, running additional copies of it is cheap, and the associated costs are rapidly getting cheaper. A commonly proposed solution for an impending era of technological unemployment is government-granted universal basic income (UBI). But this could dramatically change how citizens participate in society because work is most people's primary bargaining chip. Our modern world is upheld with a simple exchange: you work for someone with money to pay you, because you have time or skills that they don't have. The economy depends on workers' skills, judgment, and consumption. As such, workers have historically bargained for higher wages and 40-hour work weeks because the economy depends on them. With AGI, we are posed to change, if not entirely sever, that relationship. For the first time in human history, capital might fully substitute for labor. If this happens, workers won't be necessary for the creation of value because machines will do it better and cheaper. As a result, your company won't need you to increase their profits and your government won't need you for their tax revenue. We could face what we call 'The Intelligence Curse', which is when powerful actors such as governments and companies create AGI, and subsequently lose their incentives to invest in people. Just like in oil-rich states afflicted with the 'resource curse,' governments won't have to invest in their populations to sustain their power. In the worst case scenario, they won't have to care about humans, so they won't. But our technological path is not predetermined. We can build our way out of this problem. Many of the people grappling with the other major risks from AGI—that it goes rogue, or helps terrorists create bioweapons, for example—focus on centralizing and regulatory solutions: track all the AI chips, require permits to train AI models. They want to make sure bad actors can't get their hands on powerful AI, and no one accidentally builds AI that could literally end the world. However, AGI will not just be the means of mass destruction—it will be the means of production too. And centralizing the means of production is not just a security issue, it is a fundamental decision about who has power. We should instead avert the security threats from AI by building technology that defends us. AI itself could help us make sure the code that runs our infrastructure is secure from attacks. Investments in biosecurity could block engineered pandemics. An Operation Warp Speed for AI alignment could ensure that AGI doesn't go rogue. And if we protect the world against the extreme threats that AGI might bring about, we can diffuse this technology broadly, to keep power in your hands. We should accelerate human-boosting AI over human-automating AI. Steve Jobs once called computers 'bicycles for the mind,' after the way they make us faster and more efficient. With AI, we should aim for a motorcycle for the mind, rather than a wholesale replacement of it. The market for technologies that keep and expand our power will be tremendous. Already today, the fastest-growing AI startups are those that augment rather than automate humans, such as the code editor Cursor. And as AI gets ever more powerful and autonomous, building human-boosting tools today could set the stage for human-owned tools tomorrow. AI tools could capture the tacit knowledge visible to you every day and turn it into your personal data moat. The role of the labor of the masses can be replaced either with the AI and capital of a few, or the AI and capital of us all. We should build technologies that let regular people train their own AI models, run them on affordable hardware, and keep control of their data—instead of everything running through a few big companies. You could be the owner of a business, deploying AI you control on data you own to solve problems that feel unfathomable to you today. Your role in the economy could move from direct labor, to managing AI systems like the CEO of a company manages their direct reports, to steering the direction of AI systems working for you like a company board weighing in on long-term direction. The economy could run on autopilot and superhumanly fast. Even when AI can work better than you, if you own and control your piece of it, you could be a player with real power—rather than just hoping for UBI that might never come. To adapt the words of G. K. Chesterton, the problem with AI capitalism is if there aren't enough capitalists. If everyone owns a piece of the AI future, all of us can win. And of course, AGI will make good institutions and governance more important than ever. We need to strengthen democracy against corruption and the pull of economic incentives before AGI arrives, to ensure regular people can win if we reach the point where governments and large corporations don't need us. What's happening right now is an AGI race, even if most of the world hasn't woken up to it. The AI labs have an advantage in AI, but to automate everyone else they need to train their AIs in the skills and knowledge that run the economy, and then go and outcompete the people currently providing those goods and services. Can we use AI to lift ourselves up, before the AI labs train the AIs that replace us? Can we retain control over the economy, even as AI becomes superintelligent? Can we achieve a future where power still comes from the people? It is up to us all to answer those questions. Contact us at letters@
