Sam Altman

If AGI is successfully created, this technology could help us elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the global economy, and aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility. AGI has the pote... more AI Verified source (2023)

Once you see AGI you can't unsee it. It has a real 'ring of power' dynamic to it, and makes people do crazy things. I don't mean that AGI is the ring itself, but instead the totalizing philosophy of 'being the one to control AGI'. [...] The only solu... more AI Verified source (2026)

Power in the future can either be held by a small handful of companies using and controlling superintelligence, or it can be held in a decentralized way by people. We believe the latter is much better [...] We will resist the potential of this techno... more AI Verified source (2026)

I think it’s good to start studying [basic income] early. I’m fairly confident that at some point in the future, as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs and massive new wealth gets created, we’re going to see some version of this at a n... more AI Verified source (2016)

If it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that [power balance between labor and capital] changes. [...] The next few years are going to be a painful adjustment. Verified source (2026)

Capitalism has also depended on somewhat of a power balance between labor and capital, but if it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that changes. [...] If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now, so I don't... more AI Verified source (2026)