# Sam Altman

id: ent_sam-altman  
wikidata: Q7407093  
kind: person  
timeline: /timelines/sam-altman.md  
page: /record/sam-altman  
same_as: https://asof.is/record/sam-altman (how to cite the id: /identifiers.md)  

Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor. On the record, Sam Altman is CEO of OpenAI, since 2023.

## Key facts

- CEO: OpenAI (since 2023) · claim: /claim/clm_30CEAFFBA718.md

## Questions

**What roles does Sam Altman hold?** CEO of OpenAI since 2023, as the AsOf record states with its sources.

**What is Sam Altman's role at OpenAI?** CEO since 2023.

## Fact pages

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- [Sam Altman CEO roles](/record/sam-altman/ceo_of.md)

## Current state

What the record asserts: claims that held, valid by their sources or primary-sourced at confidence 0.7 or more. Unverified, disputed, retracted and review-marked claims are listed below, labelled, not here.

- [Sam Altman](/record/sam-altman.md) | ceo_of | [OpenAI](/record/openai.md) | valid 2023-11-29 to present | conf 0.80 | valid | [clm_B1831901EDDF](/claim/clm_B1831901EDDF.md)
  sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20240502230447id_/https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board, https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/, https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21708200

## All claims

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- [Sam Altman](/record/sam-altman.md) | ceo_of | [OpenAI](/record/openai.md) | valid 2023-11-29 to present | conf 0.80 | valid | [clm_B1831901EDDF](/claim/clm_B1831901EDDF.md)
  sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20240502230447id_/https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board, https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/, https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21708200
- [Sam Altman](/record/sam-altman.md) | ceo_of | [OpenAI](/record/openai.md) | valid 2019-03-01 to 2023-11-17 | conf 0.85 | superseded | [clm_9309874DBD53](/claim/clm_9309874DBD53.md)
  sources: https://time.com/6342827/ceo-of-the-year-2023-sam-altman/, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21708200, https://web.archive.org/web/20190311161512id_/https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/
- [Sam Altman](/record/sam-altman.md) | founder_of | [OpenAI](/record/openai.md) | valid undated to present | conf 0.80 | unverified | [clm_4EF06258E587](/claim/clm_4EF06258E587.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21708200, https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-invests-1-billion-openai-vows-build-ai-technology-platform-unprecedented-scale/
- [Sam Altman](/record/sam-altman.md) | x_username | sama | valid 2006-07-16 to present | conf 0.60 | unverified | [clm_034A9A6C7F3D](/claim/clm_034A9A6C7F3D.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7407093
- [Sam Altman](/record/sam-altman.md) | website | https://blog.samaltman.com/ | valid undated to present | conf 0.45 | unverified | [clm_7BCF04D5C19C](/claim/clm_7BCF04D5C19C.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7407093

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