Rain AI, a San Francisco-based chip startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is exploring a sale after its ambitious $150 million Series B funding round failed to secure investors. Despite early backing from Altman in a $25 million seed round in 2022,

I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong,” said Sam Altman, testifying before a Senate committee in 2023 in talking about the potential danger of artificial intelligence. With his position as CEO of OpenAI,

When Sam Altman first told ABC News in March 2023 that he and his OpenAI colleagues were “a little bit scared” of just how good the artificial intelligence (AI) systems they were unleashing are, it sounded like a cautious scientist’s plea for sober guardrails.

Sam Altman has said that, while people worry about AI replacing white-collar jobs, something else will catch them off guard. In a Bloomberg interview that aired Tuesday, the OpenAI CEO said that "the world isn't ready for" humanoid robots walking down the street.

Keach Hagey’s “The Optimist” is what could be called the authorised version. She had access to Mr Altman and many of the main characters in his story, including his family and friends. His personality is vivid and complicated enough that her story never flags. It is no hagiography.

Another sci-fi plotline we might get to experience is the existence of humanoid robots. This is a tech breakthrough that the CEO of OpenAI believes the world isn't ready for. In an interview with Bloomberg,

A slightly built, earnest talker who was little known outside Silicon Valley, Altman had soaked up the lessons from an earlier generation of tech luminaries. The tour was a brilliant pre-emptive strike suggested by his friend Brian Chesky, head of Airbnb, whose own company had failed to win over politicians early enough.

Hao is critical of OpenAI and the tech industry’s other AI superpowers, but hasn’t given up hope for the future