Sam Altman Interview

Sam recounts the dramatic November 2023 board crisis — the most painful professional experience of his life. He describes the chaos, the outpouring of support, and the surreal experience of 'going to your own eulogy.'

Sam argues compute will become the most precious commodity in the world by the end of this decade, possibly sooner. He discusses the implications for global power structures.

Discussion about GPT-4's successors, the Sora video generation model, and whether OpenAI is on track toward AGI. Sam is cautiously optimistic about capabilities arriving sooner than expected.

Whoever builds AGI first gets enormous power. Lex presses Sam on whether he trusts himself with that power. They discuss the road to AGI as a giant power struggle.

Sam reflects on his relationships with Elon Musk and Ilya Sutskever, the founding of OpenAI, the diverging visions, and the personal toll of these conflicts.

Broader philosophical discussion about what a world with AGI looks like, including universal basic compute, the meaning of work, and human purpose.