In November, Sam Altman wanted OpenAI to be the first big company run by an AI boss. He said it would be an embarrassment if it were not. This week, he said people do not want an AI boss at all.
“Shame on me if OpenAI is not the first big company run by an AI CEO,” he said on the Conversations with Tyler podcast last year. He framed being beaten to it as a failure.
Eight months later, on the Invest Like the Best podcast, he took the opposite view, Business Insider reported. The OpenAI boss now says the market wants a human in the chair.
“The world wants to know about the person that’s going to be responsible for the decisions of a company,” Altman said. “And they don’t really want an AI CEO.”
A pattern of walking it back
