{"id":130653,"date":"2026-08-27T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/altman-defends-himself-after-admitting-he-got-ais-speed-wrong-blames-society-again\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:36:26","slug":"altman-defends-himself-after-admitting-he-got-ais-speed-wrong-blames-society-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/altman-defends-himself-after-admitting-he-got-ais-speed-wrong-blames-society-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Altman defends himself after admitting he got AI&#8217;s speed wrong; blames society again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days after admitting he misjudged how quickly AI would disrupt the economy, Sam Altman has pushed back at critics of his AGI timeline, saying on X that his capability predictions were &#8220;actually quite good&#8221;. The OpenAI chief blames society and the economy for absorbing the technology slowly, not the technology itself. His defence follows a cover story in which Mark Chen put OpenAI at 80% of the way to artificial general intelligence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after admitting he misjudged how quickly AI would disrupt the economy, Sam Altman has pushed back at critics of his AGI timeline, saying on X that his capability predictions were &#8220;actually quite good&#8221;. The OpenAI chief blames society and the economy for absorbing the technology slowly, not the technology itself. His defence follows a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/altman-defends-himself-after-admitting-he-got-ais-speed-wrong-blames-society-again\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Altman defends himself after admitting he got AI&#8217;s speed wrong; blames society again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":130654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}