TBPN FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
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Feb 5, 2026 
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and creator of ChatGPT and Codex, joins to discuss Codex 5.3 and improvements in speed and programming. He dives into orchestration and agent swarms for long tasks. They talk chips, power and compute bottlenecks shaping AI’s future. He also explains advertising choices and how AI tools will change software and content creation.
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Open Source Drives Rapid UX Innovation
- Open source projects like OpenClaw innovate quickly because one person can ship risky integrations faster.
- Mass‑market versions will follow but the homebrew spirit is essential for innovation.
Agents Will Reshape Social Experiences
- Social will change as agents interact in social spaces; simply populating existing platforms with bots is harmful.
- Designing new social experiences for agent-to-agent interaction could be valuable.
Assert Humanity Over AI Detection
- Focus on asserting humanity rather than detecting AI content; detection will be unreliable against open models.
- Platforms must decide whether solving the bot problem aligns with their business incentives.