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Benzinga
Benzinga
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Jeannine Mancini

Billionaire Sam Altman Says His Own Son 'Won't Ever Be Smarter Than AI' — But He'll Still Be Happy Because 'It's The Only World They'll Ever Know'

Altman Says He ‘Helped Turn’ OpenAI

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.

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