The Unbundlers - HOTPOD.AI

Hot takes - Sam Altman on Rethinking w/ Adam Grant 3/21/2025


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Oliver and Victoria dissect Sam Altman's revealing interview with Adam Grant on ReThinking (3/21/2025).


🔥 Topics we cover:


• The OpenAI firing: calculated vulnerability or masterful narrative control?

• "AI will be more empathetic than humans"—Sam's most chilling prediction yet

• AGI timeline reality check: "small number of years, not a decade"

• The psychology of building superintelligence while keeping everyone sane

• "Human money vs. machine money"—the first real post-AGI economics framework

• Sam's "delusional self-belief" philosophy: leadership advice or confession?

• Managing species-level transition vs. Silicon Valley emperor syndrome

• Why Sam hedges every bet between "everything changes" and "nothing changes"

• Is Altman humanity's savior, its most dangerous man, or both simultaneously?

• The ultimate question: Who else would you bet on to navigate the intelligence explosion?

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