Sam Altman says in decade, college grads will be working jobs in space

https://fortune.com/2025/08/11/openai-ceo-sam-altman-10-years-gen-alpha-college-graduates-working-in-solar-system-well-paid-jobs-as-gen-z-struggles-todays-job-market/

by southernplaces7 • 11 months ago

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arthurcolle• 11 months ago

Honestly, it sounds really exciting, and Sam Altman should volunteer to show how robust it is. What a fucking asshole comment to make

southernplaces72• 11 months ago

It very specifically sounds like an openly cynical, hand wavy, even deliberately sarcastic thing to claim from this frequently self serving ass.

But i'm curious about wider, and maybe more optimistic, opinions from others here.

hax0ron3• 11 months ago

Headline: "OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years’ time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space".

Actual Altman quote: "In 2035, that graduating college student, if they still go to college at all, could very well be leaving on a mission to explore the solar system on a spaceship in some completely new, exciting, super well-paid, super interesting job".

Verdict: Nothingburger.

Dardalus• 11 months ago

This is not a serious prediction... this is just Altman's way of saying that things are going to be very futuristic in a decade. He is NOT predicting physics and engineering breakthroughs that specifically will enable a boom in space exploration. I think it's disingenuous of the media to take this quote and run with it... it's really kind of taken out of context.

bradac56• 11 months ago

Just like your comment wasn't a serious comment, anyone defending this rich asshole has no idea what he's actually saying.

This was a backhand to anyone not born rich and in a CS program that he's purposely trying to make a permanent burger flipper. It's the exact same vain as Biden's "coal miners should learn to code" shit.

southernplaces72• 11 months ago

Under the present circumstances and given the nature of his product, the things he's done to create it and other details, the comment itself is absurdly idiotic, dismissive and almost a parody of the deluded billionaire with his head up his ass.

SilverElfin• 11 months ago

Even if this is a hyperbolic comment just to say that the world is changing, it is just so weird to say things in this way. It feels very unserious and makes me think that anything he says should be seen that way, as something just made up. Isn’t he self aware enough from his experience to know this? How do you get wrapped up in your world enough to not understand how it sounds to others?

But also … if others here have not seen the interview this is from, it is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmtuvNfytjM

And like other Sam Altman interviews, he just does not answer a lot of the questions he is asked. It’s frustrating but also really slimy.

al_borland• 11 months ago

That was just an off the cuff example for jobs that will exist in the future that we haven’t thought of or don’t exist yet.

When computers were first invented and taking jobs, people hadn’t yet envisioned all the jobs computers would create. This was the point he was trying to drive home.

FrankWilhoit• 11 months ago

Bet, against this, every resource that you either have in hand or can borrow on any terms.

Sam Altman says in decade, college grads will be working jobs in space

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