Sam Altman said AI is more efficient because it takes "20 years of life and all the food you eat" to train a human, and it's factually wrong.

A teenager can learn to drive in about 20 hours of practice. Meanwhile, the self-driving industry has spent over $100 billion and 17 years trying to replicate that skill.

Waymo started in 2009 and still lost $5 billion last year. They still can't drive in bad weather or on unmapped roads. A 16-year-old figures that out in their first winter.\

And aside from the factual inaccuracy, statements like this are why people dislike AI.

Reducing 20 years of a person's life to an inefficiency problem, as if childhood, learning, and growth are just a waste of compute.

OpenAI has a massive public perception problem, and Sam is making it worse.

When the most visible AI CEO keeps saying things that feel dismissive and tone deaf, it poisons the well for the entire industry.

At some point, the AI industry needs to ask a hard question: is Sam Altman the right person to be their public face?