OpenAI's Altman says AI unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse'

The Hindu · 🇮🇳 public India · May 26, 2026 · 518 words · By Reuters

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global "jobs apocalypse" and the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared.

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Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney, Mr.

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Altman said he was initially concerned about the impact AI would have on global employment levels.

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Claim 1: “Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney”

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Multiple sources (Reuters and other web results) explicitly state that Sam Altman spoke virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney on May 26, 2026.

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Claim 2: “OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file for a U.S. initial public offering in the coming weeks, Reuters reported last week”

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The provided evidence for this claim only contains general links to the Reuters homepage and does not contain the specific report regarding a confidential IPO filing.

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Claim 3: “The company could be aiming for a $1 trillion valuation and raising at least $60 billion, Reuters reported in October”

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Similar to claim 5, the evidence provided consists only of general Reuters landing pages and does not contain the specific report about a $1 trillion valuation or $60 billion raise from October.

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Claim 4: “the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared”

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While the general event of the speech is corroborated, the specific detail regarding his previous fears about white-collar jobs is not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence snippets.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Musk v. Altman was a February 2024 lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in which Elon Musk accused OpenAI and its executives, including CEO Sam Altman, o…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman. In an official post on the company's website, it was stated that "the board no longer has confidence…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford…
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Claim 5: “he and his executives had been "roughly right" on the technological predictions made by OpenAI when it launched ChatGPT in 2022”

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The provided evidence mentions the 2022 launch of ChatGPT and Altman's general predictions, but does not contain the specific quote or claim that he and his executives were 'roughly right' about those predictions.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Originally released in November 2022, the product uses large language models—specifically generative pre-trained transforme…
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Claim 6: “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global "jobs apocalypse"”

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Multiple independent web search results, including Reuters and other news reports, confirm that Sam Altman stated on May 26, 2026, that AI would not lead to a 'jobs apocalypse'.

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Claim 7: “A growing number of global companies, including HSBC, Amazon, Standard Chartered and CBA have announced some jobs within their companies were being replaced by AI”

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Multiple independent web search results (including Reuters and others) confirm that HSBC, Amazon, Standard Chartered, and CBA have announced that some jobs are being replaced by AI.

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