Sam Altman on Lenny's Podcast: coding jobs, sycophancy, chips and cheap compute
lennysan · x · 2026-10-22
Lenny's Podcast released a deep interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman covering:
- When AI will discover new treatments and why it hasn't killed coding jobs yet
- Personal AI assistants and why we're busier than ever
- The AI consciousness debate — why it genuinely worries him
- ChatGPT being too agreeable: an admission of the sycophancy problem
- OpenAI's bet on chips and cheaper compute, plus his argument that AI needs a new kind of computer
Also covers his mindset under pressure as OpenAI's CEO.
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