Sam Altman says Gen Z are the ‘luckiest’ kids in all of history thanks to AI, despite mounting job displacement dread

In a recent podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman presented a strikingly optimistic vision for Generation Z, asserting that if he was graduating college at this exact moment, “I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history.” He made this bold claim even as he acknowledged the potential for significant job displacement due to artificial intelligence, hinting at a future where “some classes of jobs will totally go away.” Altman, whose company is at the forefront of building superintelligence that could “far exceed humans in almost every field,”...