
Billionaire Sam Altman says his own son will grow up in a world where humans never catch up to artificial intelligence—and he's fine with that.
At GITEX Global 2025 in Dubai last month, the OpenAI CEO joined remotely from San Francisco for a conversation with G42 CEO Peng Xiao, whose Abu Dhabi–based company builds national-scale AI and cloud systems across the Middle East. When moderator Amandeep Bhangu brought up one of Altman's past predictions—that a child born today may never outsmart AI—Altman made it personal.