- At GITEX 2025, OpenAI’s Sam Altman spoke with G42’s Peng Xiao about the future of AI
- Altman said his son will never be smarter than AI, but that won’t affect his happiness
- Altman and Peng predict a coexistence between humans and AI based on adaptation and ambition
At GITEX Global 2025 in Dubai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined remotely from San Francisco to chat with Peng Xiao, the CEO of G42 Group.
The debate, attended by TechRadar Proexplored the rise of artificial intelligence as a tool and social force, and what it means for a world that could soon live alongside superintelligence.
Possibly the most surprising moment of the session came when moderator Amandeep Bhangu said: “You have also said that a child born in 2025 is unlikely to be as smart as artificial intelligence.” Altman, smiling at the reference, said: “I have a son who was born in 2025 and I don’t think he’s smarter than AI. But I don’t think that’s going to get in the way of his happiness or satisfaction at all.”
A house designed by AI
Altman also described the idea as “kind of strange, and also for him it’s the only world he’ll ever know, and I think we’ve lost sight of what this says about the advent of superintelligence and a certain human condition.”
Peng Xiao presented the UAE’s progress toward becoming what he called an AI-native society, saying the G42 president’s office now operates with a 10-to-1 ratio of AI agents to humans.
“We absolutely put humans at the center of this AI revolution,” he said. “Our employees are amplified through AI agents. This forms a new type of team.”
“If your home is designed by ChatGPT, if you have more agents working for you than humans, AI has already arrived and is an integral part of our daily lives,” Xiao added, having previously revealed that the G42 president’s house was created entirely through ChatGPT using more than 500 prompts and was built in less than a year.
Altman also discussed OpenAI’s progress, revealing that, “for the first time, GPT-5 is making very small but real scientific advances.”
He described scientific progress as the heartbeat of sustainable human advancement and predicted that by 2026, artificial intelligence systems would discover new knowledge, and by 2027, robots would perform practical, real-world tasks.
Both leaders also discussed Project Stargate, a G42-OpenAI collaboration to build a one-gigawatt data center in the United Arab Emirates, which will be expanded to five gigawatts.
Energy was also a focus: paraphrasing an earlier conversation he had 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 needs to have a smart energy policy, an energy plan.”
Altman agreed, adding, “But the reason we do all this is because we believe it can transform the world for people. It can unlock all kinds of new and amazing things. People deserve it and I’m thrilled to be working with my friend Peng to try to achieve that.”
Altman concluded by saying, “I think this is the most exciting scientific endeavor I have ever seen and the thing that will most improve people’s lives. Working on it is exhausting and a great honor.”
You can watch the full fascinating conversation in the video below.
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