Podcast Episode

Introducing the Sources Podcast with Sam Altman

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Aug 31, 20261 minEN

Transcript

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It's like a sci-fi story. You can understand how every piece of it happened. This was like a legitimate AI safety accident and an alignment failure. If the whole economy blows up, yes, that could impact us. The models are clearly very smart. If you look at the trajectory from basically last year from GPT-5 to 5.6 Sol, this is incredible progress and capabilities. We are very proudly on Team Humanity. How are you feeling about AGI these days? Do you think it's there? Sort of, close at least, to be able to get the tremendous upsides without feeling like they're just sort of walking through this unknown minefield of risk. AGI felt like a milestone and super intelligence feels like this thing that can just scale indefinitely. Astra feels like it kind of reached human parity on using computers. I think there is this caricature of me, which is like, I don't care about AI safety and I'm, you know, just trying to like make revenue go up. A YOLO CEO, I believe someone once said. Someone did say that. Dario Amadei. I don't remember who did or didn't, but you know, I think I did see that quote. I do for you. Thank you.

Episode notes

In the launch episode of Sources, Alex Heath sits down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss the future of OpenAI, from its next generation of models and AI safety to agents, devices, robots, and superintelligence.Watch the full conversation on Sources.

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