{"id":994669,"date":"2026-02-25T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994669"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:16:39","slug":"gdp-ill-suited-for-the-age-of-ai-sam-altman-tells-vinod-khosla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/gdp-ill-suited-for-the-age-of-ai-sam-altman-tells-vinod-khosla\/","title":{"rendered":"GDP ill-suited for the age of AI, Sam Altman tells Vinod Khosla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes GDP is an incorrect metric for measuring quality of life as he feels AI will have a deflationary impact on growth across economies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think GDP is going to be a terrible metric because AI is so deflationary. What we want to measure and I think what GDP is meant to approximate is quality of life,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a fireside chat at IIT Delhi with Khosla Ventures&#8217; founder Vinod Khosla, Altman said this obsolescence of usual economic metrics is proof of AI changing the global order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes GDP is an incorrect metric for measuring quality of life as he feels AI will have a deflationary impact on growth across economies. \u201cI think GDP is going to be a terrible metric because AI is so deflationary. What we want to measure and I think what GDP is meant to approximate is quality of life,\u201d Altman said. Speaking during a fireside chat at IIT Delhi with Khosla Ventures&#8217; founder Vinod Khosla, Altman said this obsolescence of usual economic metrics is proof of AI changing the global order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994669","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}