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Public story · 2026-03-12 · source-backed
His most candid admission at the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit: "It's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU." Predicted cognitive capacity in data centers could eclipse total human capacity by late 2028. Validated "AI washing" while acknowledging the underlying threat is real. Fortune
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At BlackRock Infrastructure Summit, Altman admitted AI is breaking the labor-capital balance: "If it becomes difficult in many jobs to outwork a GPU, this changes the equation." He acknowledged being stumped: "If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now." T...
Amodei's leaked memo called OpenAI's Pentagon deal "straight up lies" and "safety theater," described employees as "gullible." Apologized for tone but confirmed Anthropic received a supply chain risk designation and plans to sue. Altman acknowledged the deal looked "opportunis...
In an FT op-ed surfaced by Fortune, Altman called for a US-led forum to set AI standards and provide impartial capability and risk analysis. Fortune frames it as OpenAI pivoting to governance-setting as it slips against Google and Anthropic. When you can't win on benchmarks, y...
Altman told Fortune that OpenAI made changes during "collaborative back and forth" with Commerce Secretary Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Bessent before shipping its newest models publicly. First explicit on-record acknowledgment that a frontier lab altered model behavior in r...
At the same summit, Altman delivered three headline-making claims: (1) the world may be "only a couple of years away from early forms of superintelligence"; (2) "centralization of AI in one company or country could lead to ruin"; (3) "by the end of 2028, more of the world's in...
Fortune reported from the September 5 gathering at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, where Altman called AI "incredible magic of intelligence in a bottle" while hundreds protested outside over data center pollution, water use and employment claims. An Economist/YouGov poll foun...
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