{"id":1005460,"date":"2026-04-28T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005460"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:30:53","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-is-literally-losing-sleep-over-the-technology-that-he-says-will-collapse-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-is-literally-losing-sleep-over-the-technology-that-he-says-will-collapse-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is literally losing sleep over the technology that he says will \u2018collapse\u2019 the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is once again making headlines with his latest post on X (formerly Twitter). Altman shared a post earlier today where he predicted economic collapse in a post-AGI world hit by mass unemployment. For those unaware, AGI or artificial general intelligence is a theoretical, advanced form of AI that matches or exceeds human cognitive abilities across all domains, including learning, reasoning, and planning. &#8220;Post-AGI, no one is going to work and the economy is going to collapse,&#8221; Sam Altman wrote. In another statement, Altman announced that he is switching to a \u201cpolyphasic sleep\u201d \u2013 a practice of sleeping during multiple periods over the course of 24 hours. Why? Because there is too much happening in the AI world to \u201cmiss out\u201d by sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman wrote: \u201ci am switching to polyphasic sleep because GPT-5.5 in codex is so good that i can&#8217;t afford to be sleeping for such long stretches and miss out on working\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is once again making headlines with his latest post on X (formerly Twitter). Altman shared a post earlier today where he predicted economic collapse in a post-AGI world hit by mass unemployment. For those unaware, AGI or artificial general intelligence is a theoretical, advanced form of AI that matches or exceeds human cognitive abilities across all domains, including learning, reasoning, and planning. &#8220;Post-AGI, no one is going to work and the economy is going to collapse,&#8221; Sam Altman wrote. In another statement, Altman announced that he is switching to a \u201cpolyphasic sleep\u201d \u2013 a practice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005461,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005460\/revisions\/1005461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}