# Sam Altman

Top podcast episodes
Updated:

Sam Altman: It's QUITE TERRIBLE That Plebs Own RAM.

The entire internet hates Sam Altman more than ever. The OpenAI CEO went on a podcast and said it's "quite terrible" that consumers are sitting on RAM that could be used for data centers instead. I'm sorry, but WHAT?! Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spoti…

Geoffrey Hinton "It Might Have Been Better Not to Develop AI" Warns of Chernobyl-Type Accident This or Next Year

The person who laid the foundation for deep learning is expressing regret about his own work. The words Geoffrey Hinton spoke early this month have added a new dimension to the AI safety debate. The phrase "Chernobyl-type" that he used carries weight. The essence of that accident wasn't the explos…

Wall Street Soars, Midterms Shake Up AI Race, Prediction Markets Win | Diet TBPN

Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode posted to podcast platforms right after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest …

I Let a Local AI Read My Ballot—Here's What Happened

Tim and Paul break down this week's chaotic AI news, starting with Tim's experiment using a locally hosted model to research his ballot—steelmanning both sides and checking every claim against source documents. They also cover the quarter-billion-dollar AI and crypto PAC losing streak, frontier mod…

Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Scale, AGI, and the Future of Everything

For more information about Stanford's online Artificial Intelligence programs, visit: https://stanford.io/aiFollow along with the course schedule and syllabus, visit: https://cs153.stanford.edu/In a CS153 Frontier Systems lecture, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman returned to Stanford — where he taught the ico…

IM 895: Unsustainably High - Tech Billionaires vs. Voters

This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence. Data Centers lose BI…

IM 895: Unsustainably High - Tech Billionaires vs. Voters

This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence. Data Centers lose BI…

IM 895: Unsustainably High - Tech Billionaires vs. Voters

This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence. Data Centers lose BI…

IM 895: Unsustainably High - Tech Billionaires vs. Voters

This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence. Data Centers lose BI…

Intelligent Machines 895: Unsustainably High

This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence. Data Centers lose BI…