2025-11-05T23:12:28Z
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is ready to be replaced by AI.
- He said he would be embarrassed if his company was not the first company led by an AI CEO.
- He then said that if he were to take his place, he would like to become a farmer.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is biding his time until AI replaces him.
He said it would be embarrassing if OpenAI were not the first company run by an AI CEO.
“Shame on you if OpenAI isn’t the first big company run by an AI CEO,” Altman said on Wednesday’s “Conversations with Tyler” podcast.
Altman said he often ponders the question, “What needs to happen for an AI CEO to be able to do a much better job of running OpenAI than I can?”
There is still work to be done before that day arrives, but Altman said he is thinking about how the process can be accelerated. He said it is only an order of magnitude away from AI becoming capable enough to run major departments within OpenAI.
When that day comes, Altman says he’ll already have his next job lined up.
“I have a farm where I live sometimes and I love it,” he told Axel Springer CEO Matthias Dopfner in an October interview.
Before ChatGPT took off, Altman said he had more time to spend on the farm. He said he used to “drive tractors and pick things up.”
Over the years, he purchased multi-million dollar mansions in San Francisco and Napa, California, and a $43 million property on the Big Island of Hawaii.
“In the short term, AI is going to destroy a lot of jobs. In the long term, I think, like any other technological revolution, we’re going to find something completely new,” he told Dopfner.
