June 4, 2026, 8:02 a.m. ET "This is this mega transition from biological to digital intelligence, from humans being, um the dominant species in the planet or the universe to not being, and we want that to go well. Um, so that's like, uh, sort of high stakes, it's a little bit stressful." That's Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, speaking back in 2017, when very few people were thinking of AI at all. And here he is the same year, speculating that eventually people will become cyborgs: