OpenAI’s Sam Altman Sees a Future With a Collective ‘Superintelligence’

Sam Altman recently made headlines when he said, “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI. Ever.” But there’s a second part to that thought …

The OpenAI CEO also carefully detailed the ramifications of a future with ‘superintelligent’ AI in a mid-August interview on the YouTube channel of video journalist Cleo Abram. And one week after OpenAI launched GPT-5 on Aug. 7, Altman was speculating that children born today will also “always be used to an incredibly fast rate of things improving, and discovering new science. They…