Aspiring farmer Sam Altman is excited to take on the role of farmer full-time once his side hustle as OpenAI CEO is made obsolete by artificial intelligence. Altman anticipates machines will have the capability to fully outsmart humans by 2030.

As Business Insider reports, Altman spoke to Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Germany’s Axel Springer, in an interview this week. “I think there will come a time when AI can be a much better CEO of OpenAI than me, and I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens,” he said.

“I have a farm that I live on some of the time and I really love it,” he continued, per KRON4. “And it sounds like a wonderful change of pace.” Altman says that prior to ChatGPT’s launch, he had a lot more time to drive his tractor and harvest crops, per Bazinga.

Altman is referring to the 950-acre former gay hippie ranch in Napa, Green Valley Ranch, that he purchased for $15.7 million in cash in 2020.

Regarding AI outpacing human intelligence, Altman told Döpfner he predicts that machines will be used to “help humanity.”

"Humans, human society, we have such main character energy, we don't really care that the machines are smarter than us," he said. "They already are."

“In the short term, AI will destroy a lot of jobs," Altman continued. "In the long term, like every other technological revolution, I assume we will figure out completely new things to do,” he said.

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