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Sam Altman
OpenAI co-founder; referenced in discussions about AI safety and leadership in the field.
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Inference, Diffusion, World Models, and More | YC Paper Club
Y Combinator
Mentioned as having run the show at YC during Winter 16.

Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | The Road Ahead: Resilience Required
Stanford Online
Mentioned as an example of an executive facing unusual situations, referencing his recent removal and return as CEO of OpenAI.

Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
All-In Podcast
CEO of OpenAI, mentioned as walking back his predictions of a widespread AI job apocalypse, similar to Dario Amodei.

A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans
Lenny's Podcast
CEO of OpenAI, quoted on selling AI intelligence like electricity or water, which Evans uses to discuss utility industry margins and pricing power.

Tech Whistleblower: You Only Have 3 Years Left Before It Hits! - Mo Gawdat
The Diary Of A CEO
Founder of OpenAI, he has expressed shifting views on AI's impact on job displacement, initially advocating for job destruction by software, then softening his stance.

AI Makes My Job Miserable. How Do I Escape?
Cal Newport
CEO of OpenAI, mentioned in the context of evaluating AI products before blindly embracing them.

Trump GOES HARD Against Flag Burning, Trump To Control The Fed? & Will Smith Gets EXPOSED.
Tom Bilyeu
CEO of OpenAI, praised for his product-oriented approach to AI development, distinguishing him from Apple's Tim Cook.

FINAL WARNING: "This Is How AI Will END The Middle Class Forever" - Prepare Now | Mo Gawdat
Tom Bilyeu
CEO of OpenAI, mentioned as an unelected individual making decisions that impact humanity's future in AI.

Bill Ackman: Investment Strategy, What the Market is Missing, How AI Breaks Businesses
All-In Podcast
Referred to as a potential chair of OpenAI, with discussion on working with him.

EMERGENCY DEBATE: The Death Of The Middle Class! The Pitch Forks Are Coming!
The Diary Of A CEO
Mentioned in a hypothetical scenario where the US government owns 50% of OpenAI, creating a voting power dynamic.

AGI Is Here — And Society Isn’t Ready | Peter Diamandis
Tom Bilyeu
CEO of OpenAI, initially predicted job apocalypse due to AI but later revised his stance. His belief is that AGI is coming within a couple of years.

Stanford CS230 | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 8: Agents, Prompts, and RAG
Stanford Online
Co-founder of OpenAI, mentioned in a debate with Elon Musk about the political bias of their LLMs.

It’s Already Happening: The AI Bubble No One’s Ready For
Tom Bilyeu
CEO of OpenAI, mentioned in the context of seeking government support for AI development costs.

Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken Elections
All-In Podcast
CEO of OpenAI, initially worried about job loss from AI but later revised his stance, noting the data doesn't support widespread job loss.

The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)
Lenny's Podcast
Co-founder of OpenAI, quoted in Mark Pincus's book stating that the bottleneck to building great products is knowing what to create.

Sabrina Pasterski - Quantum Gravity, Black Holes and the Holographic Universe Theory | SRS #312
Shawn Ryan Show
CEO of OpenAI, mentioned by Pasterski in the context of AI's potential to solve quantum gravity and the need for clear benchmarks.

Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Scale, AGI, and the Future of Everything
Stanford Online
Co-founder of OpenAI and former instructor of 'How to Start a Startup' at Stanford, discusses the evolution of startup strategies, the concept of scale, the development of OpenAI products like GPT-3, ChatGPT, and Codex, and the societal implications of AI.

EXCLUSIVE - Vice President JD Vance: They Tricked Me About Donald Trump, But Everything Changed!
The Diary Of A CEO
CEO of OpenAI, mentioned as one of the 'big AI CEOs' whose words about the impact of AI are often 'very dystopian', possibly as a marketing incentive.

Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling”
Cal Newport
CEO of OpenAI, criticized for signing an open letter on AI extinction risk and for promoting 'doom trolling' tactics.

Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
Latent Space
Mentioned for a tweet suggesting high-frequency traders consider joining OpenAI, linking technical skills from trading to AI research.

Dante Livestream #12 Final (Saturday, June 27 10AM)
Predictive History
CEO of OpenAI, criticized as a 'complete hustler' interested in money, immortality, and control.

Dante #12 (Final): Purgatory Cantos 26-33
Predictive History
CEO of OpenAI, characterized by the speaker as a 'hustler' and 'scam artist' concerned with wealth and control rather than genuine progress.

33 Brutal Truths To Stop Wasting Your Potential - Alex Hormozi
Chris Williamson
Mentioned as the person Joe Hudson coaches and leads culture for at OpenAI.

The Biggest Economic Shift Of Our Lifetime Is Starting | Arthur Hayes on Impact Theory
Tom Bilyeu
Mentioned as one of the tech giants who might hoard the benefits of AI in a post-scarcity world.