OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said he cannot imagine raising his newborn son without the help of ChatGPT.Altman made his first appearance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” where he spoke about how often he turns to the AI chatbot whenever he needs parental advice: “I cannot imagine having gone through, figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT,” he told Fallon. “Clearly, people did it for a long time, no problem.”He joked that he sometimes feels “kind of bad” putting simple parenting questions to a system designed to handle complex knowledge tasks, such as “Why does my kid stop dropping pizza on the floor and laughing?” But he added that the reassurance it provides has been invaluable.Altman recalled a moment at a party when another parent said their six-month-old was “crawling everywhere.”He was concerned that his own son was not yet doing the same. He excused himself and typed into ChatGPT: “Do I need to take my kid to the doctor tomorrow morning? Is this okay?” Altman said the chatbot replied “with a great answer” explaining his child’s progress was “normal.”“It is personalised, like ChatGPT gets to know you, and by the way, you are the CEO of OpenAI, you probably are around all these high-achieving people, maybe you do not want to project that onto your kid, and you should just relax,” he said, describing the coded response. Last week, Altman reportedly issued a “code red” internally, urging staff to refocus on ChatGPT as rivals such as Google accelerate their own AI efforts.Altman has previously said parenthood has shifted his perspective on technology. In January, he told a podcast: “My kid is never going to grow up being smarter than AI. Children in the future will only know a world with AI in it,” according to Business Insider.Altman and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, welcomed their son in February. The couple has kept their family life largely private.
