OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has offered a vision of the future that is as fascinating as it is unsettling. Speaking in a long interview with journalist Cleo Abram, the man behind ChatGPT declared that a child born in 2025 will grow up in a reality where artificial intelligence is permanently ahead of human intelligence — and they will see nothing unusual about it.
The End of a Pre-AI Memory
Altman’s words were blunt: “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI, ever.” But his warning goes beyond the numbers. He predicts that by the time these children understand the world, they will have only known an era of rapid breakthroughs and scientific discoveries arriving at unprecedented speed.
“They will just never know any other world,” he said in the interview. “It will seem totally natural… unthinkable that we used to use computers or phones or any kind of technology that was not way smarter than we were. People will look back at the 2020s and think, ‘how bad those people had it.’”
Growing Up in an AI-Native Generation
For Altman, this generational shift is comparable to — but more profound than — the arrival of the internet or smartphones. While past tech revolutions transformed lifestyles, this one changes the benchmark for intelligence itself. In his view, children will not merely be “AI users,” they will be born into a reality where AI is an invisible, omnipresent collaborator.
Yet, he frames this future as an opportunity. His own children, he believes, will be “vastly more capable” because they will harness advanced AI from the moment they can interact with technology.
Parenting When AI Sets the Pace
Despite the magnitude of the change, Altman told Abram that parenting principles should remain timeless. “Probably nothing different than the way you’ve been parenting kids for tens of thousands of years,” he said. His advice: love them, show them the world, support their passions, and teach them to be good people.
This perspective reframes the challenge: raising children who can thrive in a world where human intelligence is no longer the upper limit, but human empathy, ethics, and creativity still matter most.
Altman’s comments are not simply a glimpse into the future of technology; they are a reminder of how quickly human reference points can vanish. Just as younger generations today cannot imagine life without the internet, tomorrow’s children may never picture a time when machines weren’t our intellectual superiors.
The End of a Pre-AI Memory
Altman’s words were blunt: “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI, ever.” But his warning goes beyond the numbers. He predicts that by the time these children understand the world, they will have only known an era of rapid breakthroughs and scientific discoveries arriving at unprecedented speed.
“They will just never know any other world,” he said in the interview. “It will seem totally natural… unthinkable that we used to use computers or phones or any kind of technology that was not way smarter than we were. People will look back at the 2020s and think, ‘how bad those people had it.’”
Growing Up in an AI-Native Generation
For Altman, this generational shift is comparable to — but more profound than — the arrival of the internet or smartphones. While past tech revolutions transformed lifestyles, this one changes the benchmark for intelligence itself. In his view, children will not merely be “AI users,” they will be born into a reality where AI is an invisible, omnipresent collaborator.
Yet, he frames this future as an opportunity. His own children, he believes, will be “vastly more capable” because they will harness advanced AI from the moment they can interact with technology.
Parenting When AI Sets the Pace
Despite the magnitude of the change, Altman told Abram that parenting principles should remain timeless. “Probably nothing different than the way you’ve been parenting kids for tens of thousands of years,” he said. His advice: love them, show them the world, support their passions, and teach them to be good people.
This perspective reframes the challenge: raising children who can thrive in a world where human intelligence is no longer the upper limit, but human empathy, ethics, and creativity still matter most.
Altman’s comments are not simply a glimpse into the future of technology; they are a reminder of how quickly human reference points can vanish. Just as younger generations today cannot imagine life without the internet, tomorrow’s children may never picture a time when machines weren’t our intellectual superiors.
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