Sam Altman Says AI Has Crossed Event Horizon Into Early Singularity
OpenAI’s CEO urges global discussions on guiding values alongside clear limits to steer a managed transition toward digital superintelligence
Overview
- Altman declared that AI had crossed the event horizon, marking the start of a “gentle singularity” toward digital superintelligence.
- He said ChatGPT now outpaces any human, having reached 800 million weekly active users.
- He outlined a roadmap for future breakthroughs, predicting AI agents in 2025, novel insights in 2026, robots operating in the real world by 2027.
- By 2030 he predicts that human-level intelligence will be widely available alongside capacity for generating and acting on ideas.
- He cautioned that even small misalignments at scale could have serious consequences, calling for immediate global governance.