Sam Altman

One of the most gratifying things ever to happen at OpenAI, for me personally, is as we've released these new reasoning models, we give them to great legendary scientists, mathematicians, coders, whatever, and ask what they think.

And hearing their stories about how this is transforming their work and they can work in new ways differently.

I have certainly gotten the greatest professional joy from having to really creatively reason through a problem and figure out an answer that no one's figured out before.

And when I think about AI taking that over, if it happens that way, I do feel some sadness.

What I expect to happen in reality is just there's going to be a new way we work on the hard problems.

And it's being an active participant in solving the hardest problems that brings the joy.

And if we do that with new tools that augment us in a different way, I kind of think we'll adapt, but I'm uncertain.

Honestly, I use it in the boring ways.

I use it for like, you know, help me process all of this email or help me summarize this document or just the very boring things.

I am hopeful.

That's so deeply the human spirit and the way I think this all continues kind of no matter what.

But it will have to evolve and it will be somewhat different.

Let me first talk about the sort of general concept of people sometimes preferring the actual output of something if it's AI until they're told that it's AI and then they don't like it.

You see that over and over again.

I saw a recent study that even among people who claimed that they really hated AI art the most that the scale that you choose, they still selected more output of AI than humans for the pieces of art they liked the most until they were told which was AI and which wasn't.

And then, of course, it was different.

We could pick many other examples, but this trend that AI has in many ways caught up to us, and yet we are hardwired to care about humans and not AI.

I think is a very good sign.

We're all in speculation here, and as I'll say, I have a very high uncertainty on all of us.

But although you will probably talk more to an AI than you do today, you will still really care about when you're talking to a human.