Sam Altman on OpenAI, Future Risks and Rewards, and Artificial General Intelligence

If 2023 was the year artificial intelligence became a household topic of conversation, it's in many ways because of Sam Altman, CEO of the artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI. Altman, who was named TIME's 2023 "CEO of the Year" spoke candidly about his November ousting--and reinstatement--at OpenAI, how AI threatens to contribute to disinformation, and the rapidly advancing technology's future potential in a wide-ranging conversation with TIME Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs as part of TIME's "A Year in TIME" event on Tuesday. Altman shared that his mid-November sudden removal from OpenAI proved a learning experience--both for him and the company at large. "We always said that some moment like this would come," said Altman. "I didn't think it was going to come so soon, but I think we are stronger for having gone through it."