Sam Altman: prediction

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…What we’re seeing with Intel, lithium, rare earths is, the government is becoming an equity holder. Again, not of last resort, sort of second or third resort. I don’t mean this as a comment about the Trump administration. I think this is something we might be seeing in any case or see in the future after Trump is gone. How do you plan for OpenAI, knowing that’s now a thing on the table in the American economy? Look, there are all these ways where you can imagine that I put almost no probability mass onto the world where no one has any meaning in the post-AGI world because the AI is doing everything. I think we’re really great at finding new things to do, new games to play, new ways to be useful to each other, to compete, to get fulfilled, whatever, but I do put a significant probability that the social contract has to change significantly. I don’t know what that will look like. Can I see the government getting more involved there and thus having some strong opinions about AI companies? I can totally see that. We don’t live our lives that way. We just try to work with capitalism as it currently exists. I believe that that should be done by the companies and not the government, although we’ll partner with the government and try to be a good collaborator. I don’t want them writing our insurance policies. Now, I did a trip through France and Spain this summer with my wife. Every hotel we booked, other than the first one, well, we found it through GPT-5. We didn’t book it through GPT. Almost every meal we ate, right? You didn’t get a dime for this. I’m telling my wife, “Well, this just seems wrong,” right? What is the new world going to look like soon enough? How will that work?…

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