Sam Altman says humanity already in the singularity, warns of AI authoritarianism

5 min readNew DelhiJul 26, 2026 04:27 PM IST Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, testifies before a Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Source: AP Photo)The singularity, long viewed as a distant milestone in artificial intelligence, has already arrived, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The ChatGPT-maker’s frontman reiterated that humanity is already in the singularity, stating that the pace of AI development in the past decade has ushered in an era of superintelligence. Altman made these remarks in a recent appearance on a YouTube podcast episode titled ‘How to start a startup’ hosted by Ti Morse.In response to a question about what drives top tech CEOs and how the way they currently operate differs from ten years ago, Altman responded, “ “The thing that drive