- At GITEX 2025, OpenAI’s Sam Altman spoke with G42’s Peng Xiao about the future of AI
- Altman said his son would never be smarter than AI, but it wouldn’t affect his happiness
- Altman and Peng predict human-AI coexistence based on adaptation and ambition
At GITEX Global 2025 in Dubai, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, joined remotely from San Francisco for a conversation with Peng Xiao, CEO of G42 Group.
The discussion, in which took part TechRadar Proexplored the rise of artificial intelligence as a tool and social force, and what that means for a world that may soon coexist with superintelligence.
Perhaps the most notable moment of the session came when the moderator, Amandeep Bhangu, said: “You also said that a child born in 2025 is unlikely to be as intelligent as artificial intelligence. » Altman, smiling at the reference, said: “I have a child who was born in 2025, and I don’t think he’ll be smarter than AI. But I don’t think it will harm his happiness or his fulfillment at all.”
A house designed by AI
Altman also described the idea as “a little strange, and also for him, it’s the only world he’ll ever know, and I think we’ve lost sight of what that says about the arrival of super intelligence and a certain human condition.”
Peng Xiao outlined the UAE’s progress in becoming what he called an AI-native society and said the G42 president’s office now operates with a ratio of 10 AI agents to humans.
“We absolutely put humans at the center of this AI revolution,” he said. “Our employees are amplified by AI agents. It forms a new type of team.”
“If your house is designed by ChatGPT, if you have more agents working for you than humans, AI has already arrived and become an integral part of our daily lives,” Xiao added, having previously revealed that the G42 president’s house was created entirely through ChatGPT using over 500 prompts and built in less than a year.
Altman also spoke about OpenAI’s progress, revealing that “for the first time, GPT-5 is achieving very modest but real scientific breakthroughs.”
He described scientific progress as the heartbeat of sustainable human progress and predicted that by 2026, AI systems would discover new knowledge, and by 2027, robots would perform practical, real-world tasks.
The two leaders also discussed Project Stargate, a G42-OpenAI collaboration to build a one-gigawatt data center in the UAE, expandable to five gigawatts.
Energy was also a priority – paraphrasing an earlier conversation he had with Altman not long ago, Peng said: “The cost of intelligence will eventually equal the cost of energy. Energy is the key. Every nation must have a smart energy policy, an energy plan.”
Altman agreed, adding, “But the reason we’re doing all this is because we think it can transform the world for people. It can unlock all kinds of amazing new things. People deserve that, and I’m excited to work with my friend Peng to try to make that happen.”
Altman concluded by saying, “I think this is both the most exciting scientific effort I’ve ever seen in history and the thing that will most improve people’s lives. Getting to work on this is exhausting and it’s a great honor.”
You can watch the full, fascinating conversation in the video below.
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