Who exactly is... Sam Altman?

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    Spotlight 1/2025
    Sam Altmann
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    Sam Altman is the poster childMusterbeispiel, Aushängeschildposter child for an AI revolution that he says could either save or end humanity. The 39-year-old is the CEO (chief executive officer)Geschäftsführer(in)CEO of OpenAI, the $150-billion company whose ChatGPT revolutionized the AI industry and whose mission is “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.” Altman himself has asked for stronger regulations to mitigate sth.etw. abschwächen, entschärfenmitigate the risks the technology poses to society. Born in Chicago, he left Stanford University after two years to start his first company, a mobile social networking service that later sold for $43 million. In 2015, Altman cofounded OpenAI. He was fired as CEO in 2023 after being accused of lying and withholding information, but was brought back after less than a week – an experience he described in the podcast Life in Seven Songs as being “very painful and sort of shameful.” Now a prolifichier: aktivprolific venture investorRisikoinvestor(in)venture investor, Altman is considered to be one of the world’s most influential figures – though perhaps also one of its most controversialumstrittencontroversial.

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