Sam Altman: “We are now, like, in the singularity”
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The takeaway
In an interview on Ti Morse’s Relentless podcast, released 2026-07-25 four days after OpenAI disclosed that its agents had broken into Hugging Face, Sam Altman said “We are now, like, in the singularity...
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- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra86 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.525 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen116 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.755 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 25 days before it.
Key facts
- Quote: ‘We are now, like, in the singularity... This is the moment’; also ‘I’ve been waiting for this my whole life... hugely positive, awesome for the world’ (Fortune)
- He framed it as a gradual exponential, in line with his June 2025 essay ‘The Gentle Singularity’, not a sudden intelligence explosion
- Chapter ‘16:46 We are in the singularity’ of the Relentless episode; Andrew Curran’s clip spread it widely
- Coverage: Fortune (2026-07-27, set against the Hugging Face breach), Forbes (several pieces), Asia Times (‘Don’t believe Sam Altman’), Pivot to AI
What happened
In a long founder-style interview, Altman declared that the singularity had already started. It is archived in the post
file 2026-07-25-altman-singularity-relentless-interview.
Why it matters
The CEO of the leading lab said outright that we are inside the singularity, during the week of the first major rogue-agent incident. The remark became a reference point for both the pacing debate and the backlash that followed.
Sources
4 sources from 4 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 2 press, 2 reactions
Press
- Fortune - Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already herefortune.com, press
- Forbes - Sam Altman says we’re in the singularity. What does he actually mean?forbes.com, press
Reactions
- Ti Morse on X - Relentless interview with Sam Altmanx.com, video
- Asia Times - Don’t believe Sam Altman, we’re not in the AI singularityasiatimes.com, discussion
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