Sam Altman is tech’s next household name — if we survive the killer robots

Sam Altman may be tech’s next household name, but many Americans probably haven’t heard of him.

Sam Altman may be tech’s next household name, but many Americans probably haven’t heard of him. 

To anyone outside San Francisco, Altman would probably seem like just another young tech CEO. He’s a Stanford University dropout who sold a tech startup years ago for a fortune, and he’s spent the past decade investing and coaching other entrepreneurs. He posts confident and sunny life advice on Twitter and peppers his conversation with references to line graphs. 

But in the past three months, Altman, 37, has rocketed to the top of the tech industry’s power rankings on the back of OpenAI. Altman is CEO of the company, which created the viral artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. The technology has caused a panic at rivals such as Google, sparked fears of killer robots and reoriented the direction of tech innovation seemingly overnight. 

Move over Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Silicon Valley may have found its next star CEO. 

“He is certainly the man of the hour, which is all the more remarkable given that he’s 37 years old,” said Oren Etzioni, an expert in artificial intelligence who served for years as the head of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/chatgpt-sam-altman-openai-ai-chat-ceo-rcna70371

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