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Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: evaluation
5 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
“I suspect that there will be a new way to interact with a cluster of ideas that is better than a book for most things.”
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- Sam Altman
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- 5 Nov 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Yes. Let’s say when your kids are old enough that they’re grown, they can go out on their own. In that future world, which is not so far off, do you think you’ll still be reading books, or you’ll just be interacting with your AI? Books have survived a lot of other technological change. I think there is something deep about the format of a book that has persisted. It’s very mindy, whatever the current word for that is. I suspect that there will be a new way to interact with a cluster of ideas that is better than a book for most things. I don’t think books will be gone, but I would bet they’re a smaller percentage of how people learn a new or interact with a new idea. What’s the cultural habit you have that you think will change the most? Like, “Oh, I won’t watch movies anymore, I’ll create my own,” or whatever, for you? AI will obliterate what you did when you were 23.…
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