TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hagey,Keach
TI  - THE OPTIMIST: Sam Altman, Open AI and the Race to Invent the Future / 
SN  - 9781324075967
U1  - 006.3 23
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Altman, Sam,
KW  - OpenAI (Firm)
KW  - Artificial intelligence.
KW  - Social aspects.
KW  - Economic aspects.
KW  - Business.
KW  - Entrepreneurship
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The Optimist by Keach Hagey is a detailed biography of Sam Altman, tracing his rise from a precocious youth to a central figure in the race to build artificial general intelligence as CEO of OpenAI. Through over 250 interviews, Hagey paints a nuanced portrait of Altman as a visionary risk-taker with near-religious faith in technological progress, whose dramatic 2023 firing and swift reinstatement underscored his influence and the volatile pace of the AI industry.
ER  -