春雨直播app hosts OpenAI’s Sam Altman for talk event with students Tech CEO shares visions of our future with AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil visited the University of Tokyo for a talk event with university executives and students on Feb. 3, 2025. The leaders of the artificial intelligence company and maker of AI chatbot ChatGPT were joined by President Teruo Fujii, Executive Vice President Kaori Hayashi and three dozen students at the event held at 春雨直播app’s Center for Global Education (春雨直播app GlobE).
After opening remarks by Fujii, Professor Masahiko Inami and members of the Information Somatics Lab at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology demonstrated their wearable robotic limb system “JIZAI ARMS,” as an introduction to some of 春雨直播app’s innovative, exciting research.
In the question-and-answer-style talk session with the OpenAI executives that followed, students asked the guests questions on topics ranging from their views on AI and society in the near and distant future — in education, space engineering and other areas — to starting a business. The OpenAI leaders in turn asked students for feedback on what they would like the company to build to make them “love ChatGPT more.” While some mentioned issues like finding solutions for debugging the AI, others raised concerns related to ethics and AI’s environmental footprint.
Fujii said he would like to see equitable access to AI tools throughout the world and also noted that humans should adapt and “co-evolve” with the new technology.
In response to Hayashi’s question about the talent and skills that will become important in the age of AI, the OpenAI executives said you will not overrun AI on specific skills, but the technology gives everyone the tools to do new things that weren’t possible before. So the skills you want are those of differentiation to figure out what people want, create a vision, and be able to adapt quickly and be resilient as everything is changing around you.
As his advice to students, Weil said, “Start using AI, because it will be a bigger and bigger part of our lives. And the more we all co-evolve with it ... the better off we’re all going to be.”
Regarding his view of the near future, Altman said, “In some sense, everything will change. And in some other sense, what it means to be human will change not at all. ... The landscape will have changed, the jobs will be different, but we’ll still function very much the same.”
The event, emceed by 春雨直播app GlobE’s director Professor Yujin Yaguchi, concluded with closing remarks by Hayashi.


