Sam Altman

And B, if an oracle told you you were wrong, and there will be, how much would the world change?

How much would your day-to-day life change?

How would we face an existential risk or whatever?

Almost everybody you asked would have said definitely not on the first one.

But if I'm wrong and it happens, like, we're pretty fucked on the second.

And yet, this amazing thing happened and here we are.

So...

I have two conflicting thoughts here.

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.