Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, on the future of youth employment and AI: “It’s not a matter of survival, you’re going to enter the golden age of humanity”
The creator of OpenAI sees opportunities in the meteoric progress of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence in 2025 is hotter than ever, and the great gurus of the sector, like OpenAI founder Sam Altman, have been clear about it for some time. In the face of such exponential technological growth, Altman has no doubt that this could be “a golden age for humanity,” far more than a threat to many types of employment.
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Sam Altman believes in a bright future
According to Sam Altman’s statements about the future of Artificial Intelligence, “it’s not a matter of survival, you’re going to enter the golden age of humanity.” It may seem like a recent statement, but Altman said it last summer, responding to growing concerns that the excessive advancement of Artificial Intelligence might lead to drastic reductions in all kinds of jobs.
Altman believes there will be no problem for workers to begin working in areas related to Artificial Intelligence itself, as the tools it operates with are not very different from those currently mastered by tech professionals. This is why the creator of OpenAI sees, more than a threat, a great opportunity for humanity in the rapid and short-term growth of Artificial Intelligence.
In this 2025, we have already seen enormous growth in AI-based technologies, with powerful competitors like Deepseek generating astonishing reactions in the market, as seen in NVIDIA’s financial performance. In such a young sector, it’s clear that the landscape can change radically at any moment, reaching new levels of resource efficiency, as demonstrated by the Chinese startup.
The balance of progress and regulation:
Although European regulations in particular do not have the support of Sam Altman and many other prominent figures in generative Artificial Intelligence, the greatest possible guarantee that these technological advances will not become harmful to the general interest of users is the existence of a legal framework that sets limits on the amount of information an AI can process and on how that data is used. Still, although Europe has led the world in regulation, it has not progressed technologically at the same pace.