Sam Altman Speaks Out About What Happened at OpenAI

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Trevor has a candid and revealing conversation with Sam Altman, who was ousted and then reinstated as CEO of OpenAI just 12 days ago. Sam recounts where he was when he received the brutal phone call, how it all really went down, and its emotional toll. Trevor and Sam also discuss ChatGPT’s explosive release last year, Sam's hopes for AI to better humankind, as well as its potential for evil if not governed properly.

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0:00.0	Sam Altman is out as CEO of OpenAI.
0:03.0	A superstar CEO on one side, a disgruntled board on the other.
0:07.0	747 of 770 employees sent a scathing open letter to the board.
0:12.0	Five days after he was unexpectedly fired, Sam Altman is back.
0:17.0	Does this even count as a firing?
0:19.0	This was a brutal... I guess I'm not really supposed to talk about this right now.
0:27.4	This is What Now?
0:29.3	With Trevor Noah.
0:40.4	Hey, what's going on?
0:45.2	How you doing?
0:45.8	How you? How are you?
0:45.8	Absolutely pleasure, man.
0:46.8	Mine too.
0:48.9	Thanks for taking the time.
0:50.4	Thank you.
0:53.4	At what I feel like is a crazy time, right?
0:56.3	Feels like the craziest time I have lived yet lived through.
0:59.4	Yeah, I mean, you're at the center of it all. So I wonder what that feels like.
1:04.3	Because I'm just an avid watcher of everything in this space and in this world, you know?
1:09.7	And I feel like you're somebody who's
1:11.7	been affected by it all. I mean, I mean, just just just right now we get the news. Sam Altman
1:16.9	was on the shortlist for Time magazine Person of the Year. Thrill not to get that. Thrill not to get
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