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Sam Altman
Voice of the week, 22 October 2026
Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI
Role checked on 21 Oct 2026 against this source. Artificial intelligence and international security - Security Council, 10228th meeting · archived copy
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This week’s Voice of the week profile: the chief executive of OpenAI, who briefed the UN Security Council in September. What he has done and said, what his critics say, and what it means for you.
18 min read · 22 October 2026
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I think we are not that far away from open-source models that can do serious damage. Clearly, we should not stop open source models from happening. That's important. But there is going to be this huge cyber threat that's going to come.
Marc Benioff & Sam Altman | Dreamforce 2026 · Salesforce on YouTube · at 20:01 · said 15 Sep 2026 · archived copy · Cite this quote · the story
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How much were you shaken up by the arrival of DeepSeek? SA: I think open source has an important place. [...] We're going to do a very powerful open-source model.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025 · TED on YouTube · at 8:06 · said 12 Apr 2025 · archived copy · Cite this quote · the story
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On the jobs front, I have two minds of this. One, I think there is going to be real jobs impact. [...] On the other hand, the job impact has been like lower than I would have expected, maybe even hoped for.
Sam Altman on Astra, AGI, and the future of OpenAI · Sources podcast (Alex Heath) on YouTube · at 35:29 · said 1 Sep 2026 · archived copy · Cite this quote · the story
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how did the interview have changed in past month or years? I we're going to keep hiring software developers [...] we we are planning to dramatically slow down how quickly we grow um because we think we'll be able to do so much more with fewer people. [...] so I think the right approach for us will be to hire more slowly but keep hiring
OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman · OpenAI on YouTube · at 48:38 · said 26 Jan 2026 · archived copy · Cite this quote · the story
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How are you feeling about AGI these days? >> I mean, at best you could say it's a very poorly defined term. I was going to say it's like an irrelevant marketing term.
Sam Altman on Astra, AGI, and the future of OpenAI · Sources podcast (Alex Heath) on YouTube · at 24:41 · said 1 Sep 2026 · archived copy · Cite this quote · the story
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I think what I was pushing back on was the government like picking individual customers of who's who's allowed to use a model. I think government testing of a model and shared standards is a super good idea.
Sam Altman on Astra, AGI, and the future of OpenAI · Sources podcast (Alex Heath) on YouTube · at 48:31 · said 1 Sep 2026 · archived copy · Cite this quote · the story
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Do you still believe in that policy proposal? SA: I have learned more about how the government works. I don't think this is quite the right policy proposal.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025 · TED on YouTube · at 28:16 · said 12 Apr 2025 · archived copy · Cite this quote · the story
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when I first started using codeex I said look I don't know how this is going to go but for sure I'm not going to give this thing like complete unsupervised access to my computer I was so confident in that and I lasted about like 2 hours
OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman · OpenAI on YouTube · at 39:00 · said 26 Jan 2026 · archived copy · Cite this quote · the story
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