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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.
His public framing of AI has tracked and shaped the industry's mood, from early product caution to agent and AGI rhetoric.
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About ten days after ChatGPT's launch, Sam Altman posted that it was a mistake to rely on it for anything important.[1]
In a January 6, 2025 blog post, Sam Altman wrote that OpenAI expected to see the first AI agents join the workforce in 2025 and materially change the output of companies.[2]
Published 2022-12-11. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
X oEmbed confirms this text and renders the date as Dec. 11, 2022 UTC. In U.S. Eastern time, the timestamp is Dec. 10, 2022. Text: 'ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness. it's a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. it’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.'
Published 2025-01-06. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
Altman: 'We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies.' Verbatim from his Reflections post.