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Persistence, Abundance, and the Civilizational Bet

Sam Altman on the early days of OpenAI, why abundance is the right frame for AI's future, the hardest product decisions he's made, and what responsible development of transformative technology actually looks like in practice.

Sam Altman
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
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