Sam Altman has spent years preparing the world for artificial intelligence that surpasses humans, a threshold known as the “singularity.” Now, the OpenAI CEO says the moment has arrived, but he claims it doesn’t spell the end of the world.
A decade ago, Altman said, superintelligent AI felt like a distant dream, something he and his colleagues discussed around the lunch table without expecting to see it themselves. That has changed rapidly as AI development has accelerated.
