CNBC September 15, 2025
Dylan Butts

Key Points

– In a sweeping interview last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that he hasn’t had “a good night of sleep” since ChatGPT launched in 2022.

– The influential CEO addressed a number of dire concerns including how to address suicide, chatbot morality, privacy and other ethical questions.

In a sweeping interview last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed a plethora of moral and ethical questions regarding his company and the popular ChatGPT AI model.

“Look, I don’t sleep that well at night. There’s a lot of stuff that I feel a lot of weight on, but probably nothing more than the fact that every day, hundreds of millions of people talk to our model,” Altman told...

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