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Sam Altman on The Future of AI | Ep. 13

(If you enjoyed this, please like and subscribe!) This was a fun one! Sam is my brother and the CEO of a small company in SF called OpenAI. I’m glad he was able to take time out of his busy schedule to give me a hard time and share his thoughts on the future of AI. We covered: - AI discovering new science - The risk of superintelligence - What’s after reasoning - Humans needing humans - The latest with OpenAI - Meta / Scale AI news - Plenty of brotherly banter Timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:48) AI discovering new science (5:40) Humanoids are the future (8:27) A world with superintelligence (11:20) Medium-term predictions (15:37) Potential OpenAI apparatus (19:01) Supply chain implications (21:51) Meta / Scale AI news (29:04) Personal reflections Linktree: https://linktr.ee/uncappedpod Twitter: https://x.com/jaltma Email: friends@uncappedpod.com

Jack AltmanhostSam Altmanguest
Jun 17, 202537mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released
June 17, 2025
Duration
37m
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Uncapped with Jack Altman
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

(If you enjoyed this, please like and subscribe!) This was a fun one! Sam is my brother and the CEO of a small company in SF called OpenAI. I’m glad he was able to take time out of his busy schedule to give me a hard time and share his thoughts on the future of AI. We covered:

  • AI discovering new science
  • The risk of superintelligence
  • What’s after reasoning
  • Humans needing humans
  • The latest with OpenAI
  • Meta / Scale AI news
  • Plenty of brotherly banter

Timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:48) AI discovering new science (5:40) Humanoids are the future (8:27) A world with superintelligence (11:20) Medium-term predictions (15:37) Potential OpenAI apparatus (19:01) Supply chain implications (21:51) Meta / Scale AI news (29:04) Personal reflections Linktree: https://linktr.ee/uncappedpod Twitter: https://x.com/jaltma Email: friends@uncappedpod.com

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  • Jack Altman

    host

  • Sam Altman

    guest

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Uncapped with Jack Altman, featuring Jack Altman and Sam Altman, Sam Altman on The Future of AI | Ep. 13 explores sam Altman predicts AI science breakthroughs, robots, and societal lagging adaptation Altman argues that beyond today’s “chat and code,” the most important 5–10 year impact will be AI materially accelerating—and eventually autonomously generating—new scientific discovery, enabled by rapidly improving reasoning and longer-horizon agency.

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