OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims he’s “politically homeless” since the Democratic party has abandoned its “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.”
Altman, whose company is a leader in the artificial intelligence technology race, said that he supported the idea of “techno-capitalism” which originally attracted him to the Democratic party as a 20-year-old.
Sam Altman wrote that the Democratic party has abandoned its “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.” AFP via Getty Images Altman’s post was seemingly in response to Zohran Mamdani saying that he doesn’t think billionaires should exist.
“We should encourage people to make tons of money and then also find ways to widely distribute wealth and share the compounding magic of capitalism. One doesn’t work without the other; you cannot raise the floor and not also raise the ceiling for very long,” Altman wrote in the lengthy July 4th post on X.
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