Sam Altman

AI is hitting a wall, which I think is the laziest fucking way to try to not think about it and just, you know, put it out of sight, out of mind.

This is so dumb, but the obvious thing is like just use the tools.

One thing that OpenAI does that I think is really cool, we put out the most powerful model that we know of that exists in the world today, O1.

And anybody can use it if you pay us 20 bucks a month.

If you don't want to pay us 20 bucks a month, you can still use a very good thing.

It's out there, like the leading edge, the most capable person in the world and you can access the exact same frontier.

And I think that's awesome.

And so go use it and figure out what you like about it, what you don't, what you think is going to happen with it.

That it's not going to be as big of a deal as people think, at least in the short term.

Long term, everything changes.

I kind of genuinely believe that we can launch the first AGI and no one cares that much.

But like 20 minutes later, they're thinking about what they're going to have for dinner that night.

What's the question you have for me as an organizational psychologist?

Oh, what advice do you have for OpenAI about how we manage our collective psychology as we kind of go through this crazy superintelligence takeoff?

Like, how do we keep the people here sane, for lack of a better word?

We're not really in the like super intelligence part of the takeoff.

But I imagine as we go through that, it'll just feel like this unbelievably high stakes, immensely stressful thing.

I mean, even now, as we're in sort of the AGI ramp, it feels a little bit like that.

I think we need much more organizational resilience for what's to come.

Good decisions in the face of incredibly high stakes uncertainty and also adaptability as the facts on the ground and thus the actions that we need to consider or to take change at a very rapid rate.