Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable — and important — AI interview of the year
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Summary
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has appeared at TED 2025 to reveal the company’s astonishing growth rate, with 800 million active users and exponential growth that has exposed the company’s difficulty in keeping up with demand.
Altman is tight-lipped about rumours of an OpenAI social media network to rival Musk’s X, and revealed that the company is working on a compensation model for artists whose styles are replicated by AI.
Altman also announced a policy shift to loosen restrictions on image generation models, putting more control in the hands of users.
The CEO faced difficult questions on AI safety and ethics and the blurred defining AGI, and Anderson ended the interview by observing that Altman now wields incredible power and will face some of history’s most difficult moral questions.