Sam Altman says that generation Z is the luckiest children in history thanks to AI, despite the fear of moving the assembly work

Altman, whose company is at the forefront of the construction of superintelligence which could “exceed humans in almost all areas,” told the Cleo Abram host of the “enormous and true” podcast that he believes that the transformative power of AI offers unprecedented opportunities for young people. Regarding the growing dread on the potential displacement of employment, Altman said: “It still happens, and young people are the best to adapt to this. I am more worried about what it means, not for the 22 -year -old, but for the 62 -year -old man, that does not want to recycle or resolve or as politicians call him. ”

A canvas for creation and entrepreneurship

Altman’s optimism stems from unrivaled access to powerful tools that AI, in particular models such as the newly launched GPT-5, provides. He envisages a world where an individual can launch a business that reaches evaluations of a billion dollars and delivers incredible products, a feat that once required “hundreds’ teams”. He said this capacity is supported by the remarkable progress of the recently published GPT-5.

Altman suggested that this new era will enormize young creators enormously, allowing them to give life to ideas at an unprecedented speed. However, he did not hesitate to the disturbing potential of AI on the labor market. He recognized the predictions that “half of the workforce of the input-level white collars will be replaced by AI” in as little as five years. However, beyond his conviction that young people will adapt better to this, he said that he was planning the emergence of “super interesting and super recent, super new and super interesting work”. A student in 10 years could go on a mission to explore the solar system on a spacecraft, he said.

He said he thought that society turned out to be “quite resilient” to such changes through history. The rapid evolution of technology, however, means predicting the future, even 10 years, is “very difficult to imagine at this stage” and even the leaders of AI as it does not know where technology could go from here.

As indicated above by FortuneThe chief economist of Goldman Sachs, Jan Hatzius, criticized data on the job market and found that the “premium” university diploma has mainly disappeared. “Recent data suggests that the labor market for recent colleges graduates has weakened at a time when the wider labor market appeared healthy.” The academics Brad Delong and Peter Turchin have criticized the disappeared value of the university degree in their own writings and interviews with separately with their own writings Fortune. Goldman Sachs has also found that since 1997, young workers without university degree have become much less likely to seek work, their participation rate falling from seven percentage points. The data from the Challenger, Gray and Noël Consulting Consulting Consulting, Gray and Noël show an increase in layoffs in July 2025, shortly before Altman’s remarks, with almost half of them linked to AI and “technological updates”.

Altman has been brutally critical of AI in recent weeks on questions totally distinct from higher education. In his interview with the Federal Reserve in Washington DC, he warned against a “fraud crisis” at the corner of rue du software in the vocal image. He also talked about his fears for humanity and the next AI border: “Too inexpensive intelligence for the meter”. Some cybersecurity experts have said that Altman was in fact undermining the question and that the fraud crisis has already arrived.

Adaptation, humility and future of truth

The conversation of Altman and Abram has also discussed the way in which society will adapt to a world saturated with content generated by AI. When asked how people in 2030 will discern “what is real and what is not real” in a media landscape filled with viral videos generated by AI – like the way in which rabbits jumping on a trampoline captured the Internet this summer, for example – Altman suggested a progressive convergence in the sense that even the photos of iPhone now involve treatment of AI. Society has historically “accepted a progressive decision” of the purely unchanged media. He thinks that the “threshold of reality must be real to consider as real will only move … The media are always a little real and a little not real.”

Altman pointed out that navigating this future will require a great degree of humility and openness to new solutions. He hypothesized that fundamental changes to the social contract could be necessary. His main tactical advice for anyone preparing for this future is simple: “The simple fact of using the tools really helps.” He urged people to integrate AI tools into their lives, going beyond basic research.

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