The Gentle Singularity Note
Sam Altman

The Gentle Singularity

Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, which is less weird than expected. We have built systems that are smarter than people in many ways, and can significantly amplify human output. AI will contribute to the world in many ways, and the gains to quality of life will be vast. Scientific progress is the biggest driver of overall progress, and it's exciting to think about how much more we could have. ChatGPT is already more powerful than any human who has ever lived, and hundreds of millions of people rely on it every day. 2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work, and 2026 will likely see the arrival of systems that can figure out novel insights. In the 2030s, intelligence and energy will become wildly abundant, and we can theoretically have anything else. The rate of technological progress will keep accelerating, and people will adapt to almost anything. We will build ever-more-wonderful things for each other, and the rate of new wonders being achieved will be immense, and it's hard to even imagine today what we will have discovered by 2035.