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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 1, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
Sam Altman Tempers the Superintelligence Timeline: "Month 24, Not Very Much"
The OpenAI chief argues that even a broadly agreed superintelligence would change little in the immediate months after, against a public expecting rapid transformation.
In remarks circulating on social channels, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman offered a deliberately deflationary account of what a superintelligence breakthrough would mean in the near term. "Say in month 23 we have something everybody agre…
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