Overview

• Altman said he would be surprised if by 2030 models were not extraordinarily capable of tasks beyond unaided human ability.
• He estimated that AI could handle roughly 30–40% of current economic tasks in the near future, cautioning that this could trigger mass layoffs.
• He described GPT-5 as already smarter than him in many ways and noted an extremely steep improvement trajectory.
• He predicted that AI could soon make scientific discoveries humans cannot achieve alone and stressed the need to manage unintended consequences through alignment.
• He rejected analogies that humans could become as irrelevant as ants and said OpenAI is exploring a consumer hardware direction, including a small family of devices with input from a former Apple designer.