--- title: "Sam Altman: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Sam Altman, Chief executive. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-sam-altman source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Sam Altman, Sam Altman AI, Sam Altman quotes, Sam Altman statements, Sam Altman on AI, what Sam Altman said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Sam Altman, Chief executive. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-sam-altman The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Sam Altman [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-sam-altman) Chief executive · OpenAI ## Why now No headline this week names Sam Altman. ## What they said 5 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Sam Altman, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - May 8, 2025 In the record "I think that would be disastrous" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Model Releases & Benchmarks](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-models) · [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [techpolicy.press](https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-sam-altman-testifies-at-us-senate-hearing-on-ai-competitiveness/) - Jan 5, 2025 In the record "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [venturebeat.com](https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-begins-2025-with-massive-hype-for-agi-superintelligence) - Sep 23, 2024 In the record "It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!)" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [venturebeat.com](https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-ceo-sam-altman-anticipates-superintelligence-soon-defends-ai-in-rare-personal-blog-post) - May 16, 2023 In the record "If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-altman-senate-chatgpt-ai-could-go-quite-wrong/) - Feb 24, 2023 In the record "A misaligned superintelligent AGI could cause grievous harm to the world; an autocratic regime with a decisive superintelligence lead could do that too." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Sam%20Altman#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Sam Altman ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Feb 24, 2023 ["A misaligned superintelligent AGI could cause grievous harm to the world; an autocratic regime with a decisive superintelligence lead could..."](https://openai.com/index/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/) - May 16, 2023 ["If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong"](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-altman-senate-chatgpt-ai-could-go-quite-wrong/) - Sep 23, 2024 ["It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!)"](https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-ceo-sam-altman-anticipates-superintelligence-soon-defends-ai-in-rare-personal-blog-post) - Jan 5, 2025 ["We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it."](https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-begins-2025-with-massive-hype-for-agi-superintelligence) - May 8, 2025 ["I think that would be disastrous"](https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-sam-altman-testifies-at-us-senate-hearing-on-ai-competitiveness/) - May 16, 2023 ["If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong"](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-altman-senate-chatgpt-ai-could-go-quite-wrong/) - May 8, 2025 ["I think that would be disastrous"](https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-sam-altman-testifies-at-us-senate-hearing-on-ai-competitiveness/) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Sam Altman. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Sam Altman with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.