Tie all machine scaling to human time. Want to spy on me for a day? Some human has to spend an hour of their life to permit it.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"edot","children":[],"created_at":"2026-08-21T02:10:49.000Z","created_at_i":1787278249,"id":49382866,"options":[],"parent_id":49379261,"points":null,"story_id":49379261,"text":"Meh, started off good, then went transparently into the \u201cwe should have a duopoly with Anthropic\u201d pitch.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ChrisArchitect","children":[],"created_at":"2026-08-21T02:50:09.000Z","created_at_i":1787280609,"id":49383132,"options":[],"parent_id":49379261,"points":null,"story_id":49379261,"text":"Title clarification: Introducing AI Futures, the blog of OpenAI\u2019s new Strategic Futures team
Not some kind of finance futures thing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"CKMo","children":[],"created_at":"2026-08-21T02:59:54.000Z","created_at_i":1787281194,"id":49383204,"options":[],"parent_id":49379261,"points":null,"story_id":49379261,"text":"Looked into the author's history, credentials, background, and education. OpenAI couldn't find a single more qualified person to lead their AI futures?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"pants2","children":[],"created_at":"2026-08-21T03:10:25.000Z","created_at_i":1787281825,"id":49383288,"options":[],"parent_id":49379261,"points":null,"story_id":49379261,"text":"From the title I assumed this would be about futures contracts for inference, similar to CME's new GPU compute futures. Instead "Futures" the the name of some weird political think-tank that's envisioning the collapse of society.
Guess they need to create hype somehow.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-08-20T19:46:49.000Z","created_at_i":1787255209,"id":49379261,"options":[],"parent_id":null,"points":21,"story_id":49379261,"text":null,"title":"Introducing AI Futures","type":"story","url":"https://openai.com/index/introducing-ai-futures/"}