Future has come too soon?

What is the 'gentle singularity' of Sam Altman the CEO of OpenAi?​

by Marco Trabucchi
13 June 2025

SAM ALTMAN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, OPEN AI

ChatGpt's dad outlines a scenario where super-intelligent AI will transform the global economy by 2030, making artificial intelligence 'too cheap to measure'​

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Sam Altman does not mince words: 'We are beyond the event horizon, the take-off has begun'. In a long post on his personal blog, the OpenAI CEO paints a future where artificial super-intelligence will not only be a reality, but will become so cheap as to be comparable to the cost of electricity. A vision that, if realised, would completely reshape the global economic balance with 'an enormous acceleration' of scientific progress and increased productivity.

Economic Challenges and Opportunities​

The picture is not without its critical aspects. Altman acknowledges that 'whole classes of jobs will disappear', but argues that the world will become so rich so fast that we can 'seriously consider new political ideas that we could not afford before'. The historical analogy is that of the Industrial Revolution: a subsistence farmer of a thousand years ago would look at many of our current jobs as 'fake jobs', thinking that we are just playing for entertainment

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