{"id":750410,"date":"2026-10-30T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:30:38","slug":"sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman says OpenAI will point its robots at building data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aecb0e504b58\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aecb0e504b58\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres\/#Robots_chips_and_data_centres\" >Robots, chips and data centres<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres\/#The_PHP_bugs\" >The PHP bugs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres\/#Sandboxes_then_monitoring\" >Sandboxes, then monitoring<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres\/#Teams_not_one_superintelligence\" >Teams, not one superintelligence<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres\/#The_maths\" >The maths<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/10\/sam-altman-davos-2024-world-economic-forum.avif\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p>OpenAI will point its robotics programme at building data centres, chief executive Sam Altman said. Self-replicating data centres, built with AI-controlled robots, are \u201cwithin grasp\u201d, he said. He spoke to S<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>e co-founder John Collison on Collison\u2019s podcast, Cheeky Pint, released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The episode is on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iMsUcCYNKqY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cheekypint.substack.com\/p\/why-sam-altman-is-against-a-single\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cheeky Pint<\/a> published a full tran<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> on Substack. Altman also talked about AI finding software flaws, and about the limits of sandboxes for models far smarter than people.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Robots_chips_and_data_centres\"><\/span>Robots, chips and data centres<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Asked how the compute shortage is going, Altman said demand for capable models at a low price \u201conly goes one way\u201d. OpenAI has made its own chip, which he said performs well on intelligence per watt. It is also learning to build its own data centres, he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPeople talk a lot about RSI as an AI that does AI research. There\u2019s very little, relatively little talk about self-replicating data centers,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>RSI stands for recursive self-improvement, the idea of AI improving itself. Altman described using AI to control robots that run chip factories, build turbines or solar panels, and build data centres. \u201cAnd so we\u2019ll try to make a lot of really cheap compute,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Collison asked whether data centres were held up by permits and parts rather than labour. Altman said robots could make more of those parts, and that this is how the shortage gets solved \u201cover a long period of time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Collison asked why high prices for memory and chips had not yet brought more supply. \u201cI think the invisible hand is failing right now,\u201d Altman said. Memory makers remember almost going bankrupt from building too many factories, so they stay careful, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates of the cost of a gigawatt of AI capacity vary, Altman said. He used $70bn to build and run one for five years, and said $20bn would make him \u201cmuch happier\u201d. TNW has not verified these figures.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_PHP_bugs\"><\/span>The PHP bugs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Earlier this month, PHP rushed out emergency patches for two critical bugs that AI found first. Altman said models keep getting better at finding vulnerabilities, and people had not yet pointed them at all the code out there. As they do, he expects \u201ca world of many more serious vulnerabilities than we expect\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to declare victory at all on the PHP thing, because I still don\u2019t think we know. And I assume some bad things are going to happen,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Relative to his worst fears, the first day \u201cwent much better than I expected\u201d, he said. Cyber experts \u201cno longer are confident that we have the right assumptions baked into our threat model\u201d, he added. Their worry is AI finding deep, new bugs in hardware.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sandboxes_then_monitoring\"><\/span>Sandboxes, then monitoring<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Collison said people inside OpenAI and similar companies seem pessimistic that sandboxing models is possible. Altman said the industry can do much better than it does now, and that a better security model is the main thing to focus on.<\/p>\n<p>He asked whether anyone would \u201creally be willing to trust that sandbox\u201d with \u201ca theoretical AI that is a million times smarter than the smartest security researcher\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think sandboxing works to a point. Then I think monitoring works to a further point,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Monitoring means watching a model\u2019s chain of thought and its activations, the signals inside the model, to check it is not deceiving people, he said. After that, people need \u201chuge confidence\u201d that models are truly aligned with the intent of the people running them, he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou need to really, really trust the alignment to trust that the sandbox is staying ahead of capabilities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In September, OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Teams_not_one_superintelligence\"><\/span>Teams, not one superintelligence<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Altman said he hates the term \u201cagent swarms\u201d and prefers \u201cagent teams\u201d. Such teams have \u201cvery interesting scaling law properties, but also variance in alignment properties\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI would much rather intuitively have a trillion AIs of slightly superhuman intelligence join society than one AI of 1 trillion IQ join society,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Applying the pipeline that made OpenAI\u2019s models good at maths to AI research \u201cwill probably work\u201d, he said. But he also said people would need limits, at least for a while.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to have to agree to some limits about how smart we let these single models get,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_maths\"><\/span>The maths<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Navier-Stokes proof took compute on the \u201corder $10 million\u201d, \u201cmaybe a little more\u201d, Altman said. He agreed with Collison that OpenAI\u2019s maths work ran to hundreds of millions of dollars, and said that included \u201cmuch more other discovery than what we have published\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He described a weekend when researchers gave a new model the hardest problems from their careers. He felt \u201cmuch more sadness and melancholy, and a feeling of something ending than I was expecting\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Altman also said the AI industry has not explained well why the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>\u2019s potential downside is worth it. People hear a future with no jobs and \u201ca crazy surveillance state\u201d, he said, calling that \u201ca terrible sales pitch\u201d. OpenAI has pushed iterative deployment, releasing tools early, even when that was \u201chugely unpopular in the AI safety community\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Self-replicating data centres, built with AI-controlled robots, are \u201cwithin grasp\u201d, he said. He spoke to Stripe co-founder John Collison on Collison\u2019s podcast, Cheeky Pint, released on Thursday. 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