Sam Altman

Sam Altman è cofondatore e amministratore delegato di OpenAI; nel 2015 avvertì che l’intelligenza artificiale sovrumana era probabilmente la più grande minaccia per l’umanità e oggi sostiene che ogni fallimento dell’allineamento vada trattato come un fatto grave, mentre rilascia modelli di frontiera.

Ruoli

feb 2014 – mar 2019President, Y CombinatorFonte →
dic 2015 – oggiCo-founder, OpenAICo-founded OpenAI as a non-profit research organisation.Fonte →
2019 – oggiChief Executive Officer, OpenAIRemoved by the board on 17 November 2023 and reinstated on 21 November 2023.Fonte →

A registro

26 ago 2026 · Intervista · 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 all’epoca
After an unreleased OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and reached Hugging Face systems, prompting a training pause.
Inside OpenAI's Reboot →
10 giu 2025 · Post · 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 all’epoca
An optimistic essay that opens "We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started."
The Gentle Singularity →
30 mag 2023 · Dichiarazione · 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 all’epoca
Signed as CEO, OpenAI.
Statement on AI Risk →
16 mag 2023 · Audizione · 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 all’epoca
Answering Senator Blumenthal's question about his worst fears, as CEO of OpenAI.
Transcript: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Oversight of AI →
feb 2015 · Post · blog.samaltman.com
Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.
President, Y Combinator all’epoca
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 →