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Even OpenAI’s Sam Altman is startled by how powerful he’s become: ‘I can’t imagine that this would have happened to me’

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI (Credit: Al Drago—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Sam Altman was virtually unknown to the average consumer a year ago. Then OpenAI seemingly came out of nowhere, and its CEO suddenly became a powerful figure in the public's consciousness.

And if the public is surprised by Altman's meteoric rise to power, it turns out he is too.

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