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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he doesn't believe people would want an AI to replace his job."I think for my job, for example, I think the world wants to know about the person that's going to be responsible for the decisions of a company, and who they're going to hold accountable if they make bad ones, and they don't really want an AI CEO," Altman said during an episode of "Invest Like The Best" published on Tuesday.Altman's thinking on the matter may have evolved since last November, when he told the "Conversations with Tyler" podcast that it would be akin to a failure if another company beat OpenAI to replacing its CEO with an AI model."Shame on me if OpenAI is not the first big company run by an AI CEO," Altman said at the time.The OpenAI CEO said that the focus on humanity is one of the reasons that AI hasn't "upended" the economy to the extent he originally expected."People have a great degree of trust and enjoyment in working with other people," he said on "Invest Like The Best." "And you can go hire an AI consultant right now, or talk to an AI sales rep right now, or hire an AI engineer or whatever — somehow most people seem to still really prefer interacting with a human."Altman said he feels the same way, too.
