‘Cannot imagine raising a newborn without ChatGPT’: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman | WATCH

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has sparked online discussion after revealing how much he leaned on ChatGPT during the first months of parenthood.

During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Altman admitted that he frequently turned to the AI for guidance on everyday parenting questions. “I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT,” he told Fallon, before noting, “Clearly, people did it for a long time — no problem.”

Altman, who and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, welcomed their son in February, confessed that he sometimes felt guilty asking ChatGPT seemingly trivial questions, such as, “Why does my child stop dropping pizza on the floor and laughing?”

The 40-year-old CEO also shared a moment at a social gathering when another parent mentioned their six-month-old was already crawling. Concerned his own son might be behind, Altman said he hurried to a bathroom and typed a worried question into ChatGPT, seeking reassurance about his child’s development.

"I ran to the bathroom, and I was like, do I need to take my kid to the doctor tomorrow morning?" he recalled. ChatGPT’s response reassured him, noting that his son’s progress was entirely normal. Altman added that the reply felt highly personalised.

“ChatGPT gets to know you, and by the way, you're the CEO of OpenAI, you probably are around all these high-achieving people, maybe you don't want to project that onto your kid, and you should just relax, and he'll be fine, whatever,” Altman explained to Fallon.