Metadata
- Author: Sam Altman
- Full Title:: The Gentle Singularity
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Foundation Models,
- URL:: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
- Read date:: 2025-07-04
Highlights
There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before. We probably won’t adopt a new social contract all at once, but when we look back in a few decades, the gradual changes will have amounted to something big. (View Highlight)
A subsistence farmer from a thousand years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs, and think that we are just playing games to entertain ourselves since we have plenty of food and unimaginable luxuries. I hope we will look at the jobs a thousand years in the future and think they are very fake jobs, and I have no doubt they will feel incredibly important and satisfying to the people doing them. (View Highlight)