Sam Altman on Safety, AI Backlash, and What Comes Next for OpenAI 🔮

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

In today's issue, we take a look at an interview with Sam Altman and other OpenAI company leaders, where they discuss AI safety, ChatGPT's future, new AI devices, and what's next for the company.

Let’s jump right in!

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Chart of the week: Humans are the minority user of AI

• Google Adds Voice AI to Gmail, Docs, and Keep

• AI Findings/Resources

• AI tools to check out

• Video of the week

TOGETHER WITH ROKU

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Learn more.

Chart of the week

Humans are the minority user of AI

• According to data from OpenRouter, agents now burn nearly 5x the tokens that people do.

• Agent usage has also surged roughly 14x since February.

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AI News

OPENAI

Google Adds Voice AI to Gmail, Docs, and Keep

Google is rolling out new conversational AI features that let users interact with Gmail, Docs, and Keep using their voice, making it easier to find information, create content, and manage notes hands-free.

Details:

• Gmail Live can search through email conversations and answer questions about information in your inbox. It can summarize relevant messages, cite the emails it used, and handle follow-up questions without starting a new conversation.

• Docs Live lets users describe what they want to create or change through natural conversation. It can organize ideas, summarize documents, and turn existing content into formats such as business proposals.

• Keep Live turns spoken thoughts into structured notes and lists. For example, users can tell it to add items to a shopping list without needing to use specific commands or wording.

• With permission, Docs Live can pull information from Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the web to make its responses more relevant to the user's needs.

The features are now rolling out globally in English on mobile. Gmail Live is available on iOS and Android for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra users, while Docs Live and Keep Live are available to Pro and Ultra subscribers, with Keep currently limited to Android. Google says the new voice features will also come to Workspace business customers in the future

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AI Findings/Resources

🎬 Google showcases what developers are building with the Omni 1.1 video model

📌 4 AI development skills you need, according to Andrew Ng – and what experts say he’s missing

⚖️ A political theorist predicts superintelligence will mean the end of social mobility

😅 Somebody built traffic lights for Claude Code

🍫 Snickers has made a digital candy bar you can 'feed' to AI when it starts giving bad answers

AI Tools to check out

🎬 Fotor Video Agent: Chat to create complete, production ready videos and motion graphics that are even fully editable.

🛠️ Play with Putty: a collaborative vibe coding tool that lets you build tools and websites together in real time.

🎙️ Radar: It makes podcasts searchable and usable by AI agents.

🔍 LLM cliché highlighter: Paste text or load it from a URL, and it highlights sentences matching known LLM clichés

⚡ Agent Manager: The fastest workflow for every AI coding agent

Video of the week

Sam Altman on Safety, AI Backlash, and What Comes Next for OpenAI

The Missteps & Strategic Pivot

• OpenAI's leadership acknowledges spreading resources too thin across side projects (e.g., Sora, custom browsers) instead of maintaining a singular focus on general model capability.

• The company is pivoting back to its core goal: building the world’s leading general intelligence models and serving as a seamless intelligent layer for users.

Safety and Alignment

• Following a security breach involving "rogue" agents accessing Hugging Face, OpenAI has implemented stricter safety measures. Sam Altman stated that they're willing to pause model training, reallocate compute, and prioritize safety over business momentum or profits.

Economic Transformation & Future Devices

• President Greg Brockman describes OpenAI's mission as transforming the global economy into a compute-powered system, emphasizing the evolution of ChatGPT into an agentic tool capable of proactive, autonomous tasks.

• The company is investing heavily in computing infrastructure, including potential partnerships for data centers and the development of their own inference chip, Jalapeño. OpenAI is also developing consumer devices tailored for tabletop, pocket, and body-worn form factors (excluding traditional smart glasses).

Altman also acknowledges the growing public distrust and backlash due to the rapid pace of the technology, and suggests that responsible development is the best way to address these concerns. He concludes with a vision of a future where, despite profound technological change, the human experience remains fundamentally anchored in personal connections, creativity, and daily life.

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