The making of Sam Altman
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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The overnight success of ChatGPT helped turn Sam Altman, CEO of its maker, OpenAI, into one of the most powerful people in tech. At a conference hosted by Bloomberg last summer, Altman was asked why we should trust him with so much power, and in response, Altman said, “You shouldn’t.” And yet, throughout his career, Altman has managed to win the trust of Silicon Valley’s kingmakers with ease. In the latest season of Bloomberg’s podcast “Foundering,” journalist Ellen Huet tries to understand Altman’s rise to power. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Huet about what she learned.
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| 0:36.0 | Tracing Sam Altman's rise to power. |
| 0:38.8 | From American public media, this is marketplace tech. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Lily Jamale. The overnight success of ChatGPT helped turn Sam Altman, CEO of its maker |
| 0:57.1 | Open AI, into one of the most powerful people in tech. But the rise of |
| 1:02.2 | artificial intelligence has raised questions about |
| 1:04.9 | safety and the people in charge of the technology. At a conference hosted by |
| 1:10.0 | Bloomberg last summer, Altman was asked why we should trust him. |
| 1:13.8 | He said this. |
| 1:15.6 | You shouldn't. |
| 1:16.9 | If this really works, it's like quite a powerful technology and you should not trust one company |
| 1:21.6 | and certainly not one person with it. |
| 1:23.4 | And yet throughout his career Altman has managed to win the trust of Silicon Valley's |
| 1:27.9 | kingmakers with ease. |
| 1:30.0 | Famed investor Paul Graham once described him as, quote, |
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