{"id":98397,"date":"2026-07-27T12:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sam-altman-we-are-now-in-the-singularity-were-close-to-creating-a-genie-that-can-grant-any-wish\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:42:14","slug":"sam-altman-we-are-now-in-the-singularity-were-close-to-creating-a-genie-that-can-grant-any-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sam-altman-we-are-now-in-the-singularity-were-close-to-creating-a-genie-that-can-grant-any-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman: &#8220;We Are Now In The Singularity,&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re Close To Creating A Genie That Can Grant Any Wish&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said during an interview on the <A href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vv3CEAS_w34&#038;t=1s\">&#8220;Relentless&#8221; podcast<\/a> that &#8220;the singularity&#8221; has arrived and artificial intelligence is on the cusp of the point where they have created &#8220;a genie that can grant any wish.&#8221; And the first thing he plans to do is wish for more wishes.   He says the central political question before humanity in this moment is whether that power will be contained and centralized into a single &#8220;machine god&#8221; or made available to the public. &#8220;Are we going to head to a world of AI authoritarianism or liberty?&#8221;  &#8220;Are we going to say: &#8216;You know what? It may be a little messy, but every time humanity has traded off its liberty for safety, it&#8217;s been a long-term net loss. So we are going to put this in the hands of people. We&#8217;re going to empower them. We are going to let society express its ideas and use this technology in the way they want.&#8217; Of course, with some guardrails, but with a lot of power and potential.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today in AI. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KjeZDWkIqK\">pic.twitter.com\/KjeZDWkIqK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bill Gurley (@bgurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bgurley\/status\/2079769629329952947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  Altman said he appreciated this meme, and his philosophy is to use it to &#8220;broadly benefit humanity and that we get the world to a place where a lot more people get to have a lot more wishes.&#8221;  He remains optimistic about jobs, with some exceptions. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re going to have lots of intellectual fulfillment, and I think most jobs are going to adapt more than it seems like they should.&#8221;  &#8220;Math, I think, is a very important example of something for us to study very closely right now-of something that may not go that way. In fact, I would say it probably won&#8217;t go that way,&#8221; he warned. &#8220;It seems like, even as the systems get better and better, no one I know is less busy. Everyone is busier.&#8221;  &#8220;I think we&#8217;re all going to be much busier than we thought we were supposed to be in a post-superintelligence world. We&#8217;re still going to complain about it, but secretly, we&#8217;re going to be happy.&#8221;  Here is the rest of the conversation:   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vv3CEAS_w34?si=k1Qrsj9FsYgBl-W9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAM ALTMAN: The thing that drives me the most is, this is the most interesting, important thing I can imagine doing. And we are now, like, in the singularity. This is the moment.  Ten years ago, this was, like, a kind of far-off dream at best. It seemed very improbable, and now we&#8217;re actually in the moment that we used to talk about at the lunch table in a very not-serious way.  I&#8217;ve been waiting for this my whole life, and I think it&#8217;s going to be incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world. I&#8217;m excited to get to work on that. I also think some of the alternative visions painted by other companies are quite terrifying. I&#8217;m going to make sure that gets pushed against and is not what happens.  But the main thing that&#8217;s different from 10 years ago is, we&#8217;re actually in it. This is real. I think it is both true that it is all one crazy exponential, and any one moment is not the tipping point, and also that we are somehow in another one of those decisive periods where the curve can go one way or another, like it was when we started 10 years ago.  &#8230;  Are we going to head to a world of AI authoritarianism or liberty? Are we going to decide that, because of the very real safety issues and economic issues, we want one single model to be the machine god, or the company associated to do that?  Or are we going to say, You know what? It may be a little messy, but every time humanity has traded off its liberty for safety, it&#8217;s been a long-term net loss. So we are going to put this in the hands of people. We&#8217;re going to empower them. We are going to let society express its ideas and use this technology in the way they want.  Of course, with some guardrails, but with a lot of power and potential. And I really care that we do it that way.  &#8230;  SAM ALTMAN: Yes. That&#8217;s a good meme.  The way that somebody explained the marketing challenge for OpenAI, and the industry in general, is: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish.  Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity and that we get the world to a place where a lot more people get to have a lot more wishes.  And number three, the space of what you can wish for is incredibly big and creative, and it&#8217;ll be quite exciting to figure that out with real human values and preferences.  But I think there&#8217;s a fourth thing, too, which is exactly that: You start making these wishes, the computer grants them, and then you&#8217;re like, I didn&#8217;t think that was going to work. What now? It&#8217;s a weird feeling.  It&#8217;s just like the problem where, I guess, people spent about a hundred years trying to disprove some-what was it? <A href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacobian_conjecture\">Jacobian [conjecture<\/a>]. And then some guy just asked Claude, and it was, I don&#8217;t know, within a few days or something like this.  I think there are going to be lots of great jobs in the future. I really do. I think we&#8217;re going to have lots of intellectual fulfillment, and I think most jobs are going to adapt more than it seems like they should.  But math, I think, is a very important example of something for us to study very closely right now-of something that may not go that way. In fact, I would say it probably won&#8217;t go that way.  It seems like, even as the systems get better and better, no one I know is less busy. Everyone is busier. Everyone&#8217;s just doing more stuff, except for the people who are like, Oh, I spent a trillion tokens.  I love this thing that I saw where someone said, I spent ungodly numbers of tokens, and then someone said, Why aren&#8217;t you more successful?  Technology, for a long time, has been promising people that they&#8217;re going to work less and they&#8217;re going to have all this leisure. And it has gone in that direction. I think people do have more time for leisure than they had at many previous points in history, and a higher quality of life in many ways.  But somehow, we never get the promise of the four-hour workweek at mass scale in society, and I don&#8217;t expect AI to change that.  Clearly, society is not working for a lot of people, and more productivity gains that actually accrue to people would be a great thing. I suspect they will. I suspect that will happen.  But a thing that I really admire about people is that our expectations go up. We always want more. We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. It&#8217;s like a relative game. People are very focused on how they&#8217;re doing relative to other people.  And so the competition that drives the economy-and the very wonderful desires about wanting to be useful to other people, create something, be of service, and that whole cluster-I expect that to keep going.  I think we&#8217;re all going to be much busier than we thought we were supposed to be in a post-superintelligence world. We&#8217;re still going to complain about it, but secretly, we&#8217;re going to be happy.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/27\/sam_altman_we_are_now_in_the_singularity_were_close_to_creating_a_genie_that_can_grant_any_wish.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said during an interview on the &#8220;Relentless&#8221; podcast that &#8220;the singularity&#8221; has arrived and artificial intelligence is on the cusp of the point where they have created &#8220;a genie that can grant any wish.&#8221; And the first thing he plans to do is wish for more wishes. 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