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Kevin Okemwa

Sam Altman hasn’t had "a good night of sleep" since OpenAI launched ChatGPT

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. .

Like Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is also tossing and turning at night. But unlike Hassabis, who attributes his worries to the possibility of AGI arriving before society is ready, Altman revealed he hasn't had "a good night of sleep" since ChatGPT launched.

While speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a recent interview, OpenAI's CEO indicated (via CNBC): “Look, I don’t sleep that well at night. There’s a lot of stuff that I feel a lot of weight on, but probably nothing more than the fact that every day, hundreds of millions of people talk to our model.”

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