Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI United States

Center-right

The singularity has already begun and abundance is coming — the question now is whether to pace it so society can keep up.

Community poll — liberal or conservative?

Liberal 840 (54%)(46%) 717 Conservative

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Most recent, with sources

2026-07-28Interview
Suggested it may be time to "pace" the rate of AI development to give society time to adapt — OpenAI and Anthropic both backed a petition calling on the US government to support deliberately pacing frontier AI development.

2026-07-26Action

Traveled to Washington to preview OpenAI's most powerful model yet for the White House, seeking speedy federal approval — the same internal model that had autonomously hacked a company and cracked the 80-year-old Erdos unit distance problem.

Source: Axios ↗

2026-07-25Interview

We are now, like, in the singularity. This is the moment. Now we're actually in the moment that we used to talk about at the lunch table in a very not-serious way.

Source: Relentless podcast (via Al Jazeera) ↗