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


The OpenAI CEO said he's more worried for 62-year-olds than 22-year-olds, because they often don't "want to go retrain or reskill or whatever the politicians call it."

Altman, whose company is at the forefront of building superintelligence that could “far exceed humans in almost every field,” told host Cleo Abram of the “Huge If True” podcast that he believes the transformative power of AI offers unprecedented opportunities for young people. He envisions a world where an individual can launch a company that achieves billion-dollar valuations and delivers amazing products, a feat that once required “teams of hundreds.” He said this capability is underpinned by the remarkable advancements in the recently released GPT-5. As previously reported by Fortune Intelligence, Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius has crunched data on the labor market and found that the college degree “safety premium” is mostly gone.

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