“more capital than any non-profit has ever raised”
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Sam Altman
Samuel Harris Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019.
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business · American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985) · businessperson · programmer · entrepreneur · chief executive officer · also Sam Altman, Samuel Altman, Samuel Harris Altman, Sam Harris Altman, Altman
Born 22 April 1985 · Q7407093
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2026· 7 entries
Public attention spiked: 26,497 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 7,648, with 22 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life expanded on the Ann part
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The Guardian: Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
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Musk would enter his third day of testimony
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Trial testimony was by now underway, with Elon Musk beginning his testimony against Altman and OpenAI
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Jury selection began in OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its current executives, including Altman
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A 20-year-old man from The Woodlands, Texas, was arrested on suspicion of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the gate of Altman's home in San Francisco and starting a fire
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2025· 12 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph authentically showed the late, disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.” Fake.
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Altman said that he believed in "techno-capitalism" and found himself increasingly "politically homeless", criticizing the Democratic Party for no longer encouraging a "culture of innovation and entrepreneurship"
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Awarded Axel Springer Award (2025).
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For Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat up for re-election in 2026 in Virginia
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“I’m a Midwestern Jew. I think that fully explains my exact mental model—very optimistic, and prepared for things to go super wrong at any point.”
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“I expect AI to be capable of superhuman persuasion before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes.”
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“It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there.”
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“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
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“AI will probably be the most powerful technology humanity has ever created, and managing its risks responsibly will be crucial.”
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“Is [AI] gonna be like the printing press that diffused knowledge, power, and learning widely across the landscape that empowered ordinary, everyday individuals that led to greater flourishing, that led above all two greater liberty? Or is it gonna be more like the atom bomb – huge technological breakthrough, but the consequences (severe, terrible) continue to haunt us to this day?”
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“In a well functioning society, governments would be doing the AGI project and [nuclear] fusion and a whole bunch of things — and yet they’re not. So we either sit around and watch the gradual decline of state capacity and say ‘that’s a bummer’ and we’re just not going to have any more technical progress . . . or you do the next best thing and just build great companies.”
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“I’m reasonably optimistic about solving the technical alignment problem. We still have a lot of work to do but you know I feel …better and better over time, not worse and worse.”
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2024· 4 entries
San Francisco Mayor-Elect Daniel Lurie named him to his transition team
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“I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”
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Altman was listed as its third-largest shareholder, with around 9% ownership
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Suggested a new kind of UBI called "universal basic compute" to give everyone a "slice" of ChatGPT's computing power
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2023· 7 entries
After continued negotiations, Altman and Brockman returned to the company
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Altman would be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team
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OpenAI's board, composed of researcher Helen Toner, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, AI governance advocate Tasha McCauley, and, most prominently in the firing, OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced tha
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Was ousted by the organization's board of directors for not being "consistently candid"
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Career landmark: président-directeur général (2023).
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When Hydrazine launched its fourth fund, the University of Michigan endowment was the only outside investor
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Altman was involved in boosting Representative Dean Phillips as he prepared a challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination
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2021· 1 entry
Published a blog post titled "Moore's Law for Everything", which stated his belief that within ten years, AI could generate enough value to fund a UBI of $13,500 per year to every adult in the United States
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2019· 3 entries
Altman co-founded the for-profit company Tools For Humanity with Alex Blania (CEO) and others
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Altman held a fundraiser at his home in San Francisco for 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and fellow tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang
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OpenAI said that $130 million of the pledged funds had been collected
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2018· 2 entries
Altman announced "the United Slate", a political project to improve U
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Musk, a long-time personal friend of Altman's, resigned from his Board of Directors seat, citing "a potential future conflict [of interest]" with his role as CEO of Tesla due to Tesla's AI development for self-driving ca
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by University of Waterloo (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
"I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to
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2015· 3 entries
Announced the return of Steve Huffman as CEO
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That they were partly motivated by concerns about AI safety and existential risk from artificial general intelligence
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And became its CEO in 2019, a role that made him a prominent figure of the AI boom
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2014· 1 entry
Altman was the CEO of Reddit, a social media company, after CEO Yishan Wong resigned
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2011· 2 entries
Altman joined Y Combinator, a technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm, and was the company's president from 2014 to 2019
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Altman became a partner at startup accelerator Y Combinator (YC), initially working on a part-time basis
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2005· 2 entries
At the age of 19, Altman co-founded Loopt, a location-based social networking mobile application
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After studying computer science for two years at Stanford University in Stanford, California, he dropped out without earning a bachelor's degree
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1989· 1 entry
The Altman family moved to Jerry's hometown of Clayton, Missouri
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1985· 1 entry
Born 1985-04-22.
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