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Altman defends himself after admitting he gotAI's speed wrong; blames society again

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TOI TECH DESK27 Aug 2026, 12:57 pmUpdated 1d ago1 min readIndiaIndia

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Altman defends himself after admitting he got AI's speed wrong; blames society again

Days after admitting he misjudged how quickly AI would disrupt the economy, Sam Altman has pushed back at critics of his AGI timeline, saying on X that his capability predictions were "actually quite good". The OpenAI chief blames society and the economy for absorbing the technology slowly, not the technology itself. His defence follows a cover story in which Mark Chen put OpenAI at 80% of the way to artificial general intelligence.

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