'A kid born in 2025 is unlikely to ever be as smart as artificial intelligence': Sam Altman thinks it's OK for AI to be smarter than us all - and I am sure we will be totally, totally fine (www.techradar.com)

At GITEX Global 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and G42’s Peng Xiao sketched a future where AI surpasses human intellect yet remains a partner rather than a threat. Altman candidly said his son, born in 2025, likely won’t be “smarter than AI” but that this need not limit happiness or fulfillment. Xiao showcased the UAE’s push toward an “AI-native” society—G42’s offices reportedly run with roughly ten AI agents per human, and a chairman’s home was designed end-to-end with ChatGPT using 500+ prompts. The two also announced Project Stargate, a G42–OpenAI effort to build a one-gigawatt data center in the UAE with plans to expand to five gigawatts. For the AI/ML community, the session underscored accelerating capability, infrastructure and energy imperatives. Altman said GPT-5 is already making “small but real” scientific breakthroughs and predicted AI-driven discoveries by 2026 and practical robotic tasks by 2027—timelines that imply faster iterations on models, tighter integration with lab automation and growing demand for compute and power. Xiao’s “cost of intelligence = cost of energy” framing highlights that scaling models and agent ecosystems will be constrained by energy policy and data‑center buildout. The conversation further normalizes human-AI teaming and raises practical priorities for researchers: safety, real-world validation, energy-efficient architectures, and policy to ensure broad benefit as AI systems move from tools to pervasive collaborators.