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Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, asks what problem people most hope AI will solve in the future

Replies suggest curing diseases and automating research.

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what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

5:09 PM · May 21, 2026 View on X

cancer, and all disease

Sam AltmanSam Altman@sama

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

12:09 AM · May 22, 2026 · 287.2K Views
12:50 AM · May 22, 2026 · 434 Views

@sama I need to decompile and reverse engineer steam games into state machine analogues that are conducive for vectorization and automating mingru RL solves as fast as possible for no reason at all

Sam AltmanSam Altman@sama

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

12:09 AM · May 22, 2026 · 287.2K Views
12:16 AM · May 22, 2026 · 2.6K Views

@sama Moon base with data centres

Sam AltmanSam Altman@sama

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

12:09 AM · May 22, 2026 · 287.2K Views
12:36 AM · May 22, 2026 · 799 Views

@sama How do we scale to Kardashev type 2 within 100 years

Sam AltmanSam Altman@sama

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

12:09 AM · May 22, 2026 · 287.2K Views
12:30 AM · May 22, 2026 · 1.6K Views

@sama if I send you a well defined problem with an impossible to hack reward function, and whose solution would have a big applications to everyone who uses a computer, would you run it in the thing?

Sam AltmanSam Altman@sama

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

12:09 AM · May 22, 2026 · 287.2K Views
12:38 AM · May 22, 2026 · 1K Views

1.Cure all diseases

2.Automate scientific research, helping us solve challenges such as energy scarcity and discover new materials

3.Eliminate boring, repetitive work by letting AI handle those tasks

4.Give everyone access to a personal AI doctor that can monitor all of their health data and vitals

5. Provide everyone with a proactive personal AI assistant or secretary

Sam AltmanSam Altman@sama

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

12:09 AM · May 22, 2026 · 287.2K Views
12:24 AM · May 22, 2026 · 3.1K Views

1) cure all diseases 2) automate scientific research (find solutions for energy shortage, new materials) 3) getting rid of boring work and let AI do all od those 4) personal medical doctor for everyone that has access to all my vitals 5) personal secretary that works pro active

Sam AltmanSam Altman@sama

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

12:09 AM · May 22, 2026 · 287.2K Views
12:11 AM · May 22, 2026 · 7.6K Views

@sama cancer

Sam AltmanSam Altman@sama

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

12:09 AM · May 22, 2026 · 287.2K Views
12:13 AM · May 22, 2026 · 3.3K Views
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