{"id":369412,"date":"2025-08-24T09:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369412\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T09:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:16:26","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-a-lot-of-people-are-glad-that-i-have-a-kid-because-they-think-now-i-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369412\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says: A lot of people are glad that I have a kid, because they think now I will\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sam-Altman.jpg\" alt=\"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says: A lot of people are glad that I have a kid, because they think now I will\u2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/openai\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenAI<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sam-altman\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam Altman<\/a> revealed that colleagues believe his new role as a father will improve his decision-making for humanity&#8217;s future, describing parenthood as a life-changing experience that has &#8220;totally rewired&#8221; his priorities. The 40-year-old AI leader welcomed a baby boy in February with his husband, Australian software engineer Oliver Mulherin, through surrogacy.&#8221;A lot of people have said, &#8216;I&#8217;m very happy you&#8217;re having a kid, because I think you&#8217;ll make better decisions for humanity as a whole,'&#8221; Altman told Bloomberg TV in a June interview at OpenAI&#8217;s San Francisco headquarters. He recently emphasized on X that parenthood is &#8220;the best thing in the world&#8221; while admitting he couldn&#8217;t find a &#8220;non-clich\u00e9 way&#8221; to express its impact.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Own AI Turns on Him, Publicly Sides With Sam Altman | WATCH<\/p>\n<p>Neurochemical changes shape AI leader&#8217;s perspective<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman described an immediate transformation upon becoming a parent, noting he experienced a &#8220;neurochemical change&#8221; within the first hour of his child&#8217;s birth. &#8220;I felt this neurochemical change, and it happened so fast. I was like, &#8216;Oh, I get to observe this. I am being neurochemically hacked, but I&#8217;m noticing it happening,'&#8221; he explained.The timing coincides with OpenAI&#8217;s ambitious expansion, including the Trump-backed Stargate initiative, which Altman called &#8220;the biggest infrastructure project in history.&#8221; This next-generation data-center project aims to address surging AI computing demands.<\/p>\n<p>AI industry bubble concerns shadow Altman\u2019s parenting joy<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman&#8217;s parenting reflections come as he recently admitted AI might be in a bubble, sending AI stocks tumbling for several days. He compared watching AI&#8217;s rapid development to &#8220;watching your own kid grow day to day,&#8221; noting how constant exposure makes dramatic changes feel less striking despite the breakneck pace.The OpenAI CEO has successfully transformed the company from a nonprofit research lab into a global AI powerhouse, delivering breakthrough products like ChatGPT and securing major partnerships including Microsoft&#8217;s multibillion-dollar investment. His personal milestone coincides with OpenAI potentially becoming the world&#8217;s most valuable private company, though Altman notably holds no equity and earns just $76,001 annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that colleagues believe his new role as a father will improve his decision-making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,129250,45360,1942,1315,129249,1318,129248,42062,20208,129247,53,1757,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-369412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-industry-bubble","10":"tag-altman","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-chatgpt","13":"tag-neurochemical-changes","14":"tag-openai","15":"tag-openai-ceo","16":"tag-parenthood","17":"tag-sam-altman","18":"tag-stargate-initiative","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-trump","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082991013819277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}