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Sam Altman: belief

5 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference

“I think I believe in human creativity and adoption of new things over some period of number of years.”

— Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
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belief
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5 Nov 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…To teach people, yes. There is such a startup, or what’s the institution? My school will teach me, that’s hard to believe. 10% of the world will use ChatGPT this week didn’t exist three years ago. I suspect a year from now, maybe 30% of people will use ChatGPT that week. People, once they start using it, do find more and more sophisticated things to use it for. This is not a top-of-mind problem for me. I think I believe in human creativity and adoption of new things over some period of number of years. You might just want to support or invest in the startups that will do this because if you’re bullish on AI, presumably you’re bullish on those startups, and it will help your business in turn. It seems odd not to have a theory of how we’re all going to learn to use AI better. You can go to dog trainer school, and they teach you how to train a dog.…

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