Sam Altman on TBPN
FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
Most of the technical discussion repeats the same-day TBPN appearance nearly verbatim, including agent management, long-horizon workflows, and software volatility. Worth hearing mainly for Altman’s direct rebuttal to Anthropic’s attack ads and his explicit boundary against ads in the conversational stream; otherwise, skip.
Well, it's just wrong. Like, the the the main thing that I think is we are not stupid. We respect our users. We understand that if we did something like what those ads depict, people would rightfully stop using the product. No one like, our our first principle with ads is that we're not gonna put stuff into the LLM stream. That would feel crazy, dystopic, like bad sci fi movie. So the main thing that's wrong with the ads is, like, using a deceptive ad to criticize deceptive ads feels I don't know. Something doesn't sit right with me about that.
Sam Altman discusses OpenAI's latest coding products, the shift toward agent-managed workflows, and the challenge of helping users realize existing AI capabilities. He also addresses software disruption, generated media, OpenAI's advertising approach, Anthropic's attack ads, and the likely social impact of much more capable AI.