Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

September 12, 2026 Terrence O’Brien

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control. On the latter, he said it was "absolutely" possible, but vowed to take actions to prevent that from happening, even if it meant pausing training, adding that "there are risks we should not be able to incur on behalf of humanity."

"We're not rushing into an IPO. I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, th …

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