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Sam Altman Shares His ‘Chronic Disappointment’ in Gen Z—They’re Stuck on What ‘Was Cool Five Years Ago’

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“It’s totally true that huge numbers of tasks that people do today will be done better, cheaper, and faster by AI—and completely differently,” Altman said in an interview last week with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. In turn, “wide swaths” of current jobs, at least as they’re done today, will be entirely handled by AI, Altman said. While he also cautioned that the transformation won’t happen as quickly as many people expect, the upheaval could create opportunities for ambitious workers willing to try something different by considering what new businesses could be built with AI. “My chronic disappointment with MBA students is that they always want to go do the thing that was cool five years ago rather than try something new,” Altman said. “I think this is a great time to go do the new thing.”

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MSNBCTV NEWS broke the news on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
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