Sam Altman: “we are now in the singularity—this is the moment. Ten years ago this was like a kind of far-off dream at best. It seemed very improbable. And now we’re actually in the moment that we used to talk about at the lunch table in a very not-serious way. And so the thing that drives me is I’ve been waiting for this my whole life, and I think it’s going to be incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world. I’m excited to get to work on that. I also think some of the alternative visions painted by other companies are quite terrifying. I’m going to make sure that gets pushed against and is not what happens. But the main thing of what’s different than 10 years ago is that we’re actually in it. This is the real thing. I think it is both true that it is all one crazy exponential and any one moment is not like the tipping point, and also that we are somehow in another one of those decisive periods where the curve can go one way or another, like it was when we started 10 years ago.”