Sam Altman's optimistic projections for AI include curing cancer, traveling to other planets, and "capturing the light cone of all economic value," which means space colonization and super abundance.

Sam Altman's definition of AGI varies: curing cancer/climate change/poverty to Congress, an amazing digital assistant to consumers, generating $100 billion in revenue to Microsoft, and highly autonomous systems outperforming humans in economically valuable work on OpenAI's website.

Sam Altman believes AI could be the foundation of an immense productivity boom if properly used and adopted.