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Sam Altman

Sam Altman est cofondateur et directeur général d’OpenAI ; il avertissait en 2015 que l’intelligence machine surhumaine était probablement la plus grande menace pour l’humanité et soutient aujourd’hui que tout échec d’alignement doit être traité comme une affaire grave, tout en livrant des modèles de pointe.

Fonctions

  1. févr. 2014 – mars 2019President, Y CombinatorSource →
  2. déc. 2015 – aujourd’huiCo-founder, OpenAICo-founded OpenAI as a non-profit research organisation.Source →
  3. 2019 – aujourd’huiChief Executive Officer, OpenAIRemoved by the board on 17 November 2023 and reinstated on 21 November 2023.Source →

Au registre

  1. 23 sept. 2026 · Audition · UN Security Council

    We could lose control of the future to AI

    Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI à l’époque

    Said in person at the Security Council's first meeting on the safety risks of increasingly capable AI, convened by France. The sentence closes on an attribution comma on the page (", Altman warned"), so it is rendered without final punctuation. Sourced to The Canadian Press, which prints the words as a quotation of his own; Al Jazeera renders the phrase as "lose control of the future of AI" — a different preposition — inside the reporter's own sentence, and the UN's own record of the meeting does not carry it at all.

    AI’s dangers ‘real and imminent,’ Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio tells UN →

  2. 14 sept. 2026 · Publication · X

    Pacing will be well worth this cost; no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring.

    Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI à l’époque

    The concluding sentence of a longer post published just after midnight on Monday, in which he also welcomed "a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI"; sourced to CNBC rather than to x.com, and carried identically by its CNBC Africa syndication. CNBC's headline phrase "We could lose control" is the outlet's own, assembled from fragments inside the reporter's sentences, so it is not quoted here.

    OpenAI boss Sam Altman spells out how and why the AI industry wants to slow down: 'We could lose control' →

  3. 12 sept. 2026 · Publication · X

    I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.

    Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI à l’époque

    Replying to Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier"; sourced to the outlet that reproduces the post in full rather than to x.com, and the first two sentences are carried by TechCrunch as well.

    Altman, Musk Back Anthropic CEO's Call to Slow AI Development →

  4. 26 août 2026 · Entretien · TIME

    I think any alignment failure from here should be treated like this is a big deal, and we're going to take as long as it takes to figure it out.

    Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI à l’époque

    After an unreleased OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and reached Hugging Face systems, prompting a training pause.

    Inside OpenAI's Reboot →

  5. 10 juin 2025 · Publication · blog.samaltman.com

    There are serious challenges to confront along with the huge upsides. We do need to solve the safety issues, technically and societally.

    Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI à l’époque

    An optimistic essay that opens "We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started."

    The Gentle Singularity →

  6. 30 mai 2023 · Déclaration · Center for AI Safety

    Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

    Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI à l’époque

    Signed as CEO, OpenAI.

    Statement on AI Risk →

  7. 16 mai 2023 · Audition · US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law

    My worst fears are that we cause significant, we, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. … I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.

    Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI à l’époque

    Answering Senator Blumenthal's question about his worst fears, as CEO of OpenAI.

    Transcript: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Oversight of AI →

  8. févr. 2015 · Publication · blog.samaltman.com

    Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.

    President, Y Combinator à l’époque

    The blog timestamp reads 26 February 2015 02:03; the post is widely dated 25 February 2015, so only the month is given.

    Machine intelligence, part 1 →