{"id":89942,"date":"2026-05-28T07:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/89942\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:11:34","slug":"sam-altman-i-was-wrong-ai-would-wipe-out-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/89942\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman: &#8216;I Was Wrong&#8217; AI Would Wipe Out Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took some autoreplies on Slack and email to convince Sam Altman that he was mistaken about the AI causing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-ai-agents-are-like-junior-employees\/492687\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">entry-level jobs apocalypse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The OpenAI CEO said Tuesday that AI has not wiped out white-collar jobs as fast as he once feared, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/openais-altman-says-ai-unlikely-lead-jobs-apocalypse-2026-05-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Reuters<\/a>. Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia conference in Sydney, he said he had expected far more positions to vanish by now. \u201cI\u2019m delighted to be wrong about this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>What changed his mind was surprisingly personal. Altman had been using AI to answer his Slack and email messages, even setting it to reply on his behalf. The experiment backfired after he realized how much he valued genuine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/leadership\/you-wont-outwork-ai-but-you-can-out-human-it\/490412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">human interaction<\/a>. That \u201chuman part\u201d of work, he concluded, can\u2019t easily be outsourced to machines. His new outlook arrives as OpenAI prepares to confidentially file for a U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/openai-is-reportedly-planning-a-1-trillion-ipo\/498994\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPO<\/a> that could value the company at $1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>It took some autoreplies on Slack and email to convince Sam Altman that he was mistaken about the AI causing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-ai-agents-are-like-junior-employees\/492687\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">entry-level jobs apocalypse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The OpenAI CEO said Tuesday that AI has not wiped out white-collar jobs as fast as he once feared, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/openais-altman-says-ai-unlikely-lead-jobs-apocalypse-2026-05-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Reuters<\/a>. Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia conference in Sydney, he said he had expected far more positions to vanish by now. \u201cI\u2019m delighted to be wrong about this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>What changed his mind was surprisingly personal. Altman had been using AI to answer his Slack and email messages, even setting it to reply on his behalf. The experiment backfired after he realized how much he valued genuine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/leadership\/you-wont-outwork-ai-but-you-can-out-human-it\/490412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">human interaction<\/a>. That \u201chuman part\u201d of work, he concluded, can\u2019t easily be outsourced to machines. His new outlook arrives as OpenAI prepares to confidentially file for a U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/openai-is-reportedly-planning-a-1-trillion-ipo\/498994\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPO<\/a> that could value the company at $1 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took some autoreplies on Slack and email to convince Sam Altman that he was mistaken about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[150],"tags":[548,38537,836,3404,613,48880,581,584,24899],"class_list":["post-89942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sam-altman","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-entry-level-jobs","tag-jobs","tag-news-and-trends","tag-openai","tag-predictions","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology","tag-white-collar-jobs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116650959459364404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}