{"id":173296,"date":"2023-10-02T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/sam-altman-is-the-oppenheimer-of-our-age"},"modified":"2023-10-02T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:23:02","slug":"sam-altman-is-the-oppenheimer-of-our-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/sam-altman-is-the-oppenheimer-of-our-age","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sam-altman-is-the-oppenheimer-of-our-age3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/tags\/one-great-story\/\">One Great Story<\/a>, <em><i>New York<\/i><\/em>\u2019s reading recommendation newsletter. <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/promo\/sign-up-for-one-great-story.html?itm_source=disitepromo&itm_medium=articlelink&itm_campaign=ogs_tertiary_zone\">Sign up here<\/a> to get it nightly.<\/p>\n<p>This past spring, <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/tags\/sam-altman\/\">Sam Altman<\/a>, the 38-year-old CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/tags\/openai\/\">OpenAI<\/a>, sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/tags\/silicon-valley\/\">Silicon Valley<\/a>\u2019s favorite Buddhist monk, <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/how-to-think-clearly-about-climate-change.html\">Jack Kornfield<\/a>. This was at Wisdom 2.0, a low-stakes event at San Francisco\u2019s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a forum dedicated to merging wisdom and \u201cthe great technologies of our age.\u201d The two men occupied huge white upholstered chairs on a dark mandala-backed stage. Even the moderator seemed confused by Altman\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat brought you here?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was featured in One Great Story, New York\u2019s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. This past spring, Sam Altman, the 38-year-old CEO of OpenAI, sat down with Silicon Valley\u2019s favorite Buddhist monk, Jack Kornfield. This was at Wisdom 2.0, a low-stakes event at San Francisco\u2019s Yerba Buena Center for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}