Sam Altman 👤 People

Sam Altman is 🧊 Cooling on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 18 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 3 points higher than 7 days before. Its last hype episode ran from Sep 24 to Sep 24 and peaked at 44 on Sep 24.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

First seen on Hacker News · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days.

Why this stage: left the hype 3 days ago; peak 44 on Sep 24.

Stage

🧊 Cooling — past its peak, or just left the hype

Hype score

18.1 / 100 · −1.3 in 1 day · +3.1 in 7 days

In hype since

not in hype now

Peak, 30 days

72.3 on Sep 14, 2026

Category

👤 People

Sources above normal

1 of 25 scoring it (1 independent family)

Stories in 7 days

201

Share of voice

1.1% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

Stories behind it

1. They are playing in our faces — Bluesky · Sep 26 · score 8,670 · 210 comments
2. Opus 5.5 is insane at making videos — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 24 · score 956 · 209 comments
3. An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario w… — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.online) · Sep 25 · score 333 · 6 comments
4. Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 26 · score 118 · 27 comments
5. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei tell the UN Security Council that governments and industry should coordinate on AI safety standards and critical decisions — Techmeme (Bloomberg) · Sep 23 · score 20 · 18 comments
6. Province of BC Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge School Shooting — Hacker News (theguardian.com) · Sep 23 · score 5 · 5 comments
7. The Problem With AI — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 24 · score 2 · 2 comments
8. Should we arrest Altman and Amodei? — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Hugging Face Forums) · Sep 26 · score 1 · 0 comments
9. British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting — GDELT (world news) (theguardian.com) · Sep 22
10. if Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are acting like legitimate military targets without a government of their own, communities and whole countries need to treat them as the liabilities they are. #aislop #… — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 22 · score 30 · 1 comment
11. we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be s… — Bluesky · Sep 24 · score 8,191 · 125 comments
12. “No, well, so, look… Sam Altman, myself, all the major AI players, we have talked about this extensively and we are all on the same page here. We do not condone what we are doing…” 😂😂 #DarioAmodei #A… — Mastodon (fediverse) (social.edu.nl) · Sep 27 · score 16 · 1 comment

Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 156 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

• Policy & macro — 72% of its stories
• Security & safety — 58% of its stories
• Companies & business — 43% of its stories
• Models — 14% of its stories
• Agents — 3.9% of its stories
• Other AI — 1.3% of its stories

Related topics

Mentioned with

Dario Amodei (163 stories), Anthropic (132 stories), Elon Musk (93 stories), Demis Hassabis (29 stories), Mark Zuckerberg (26 stories), Safe Superintelligence (4 stories)

Hype score, last 30 days

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