India, July 29 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has set off alarm bells, not with the new capabilities of AI, but with his own reaction to it. In a recent episode of 'This Past Weekend podcast' with Theo Von, Altman described moments while testing GPT-5 that left him deeply unsettled. "It feels very fast," he said, admitting that he felt "very nervous" during some of the sessions. What stood out even more was his comparison of the project to a turning point in world history: "I sort of felt like it was the Manhattan Project."

That's not the kind of analogy you expect during a product preview. GPT-5 is expected to be much faster and smarter than GPT-4. But instead of focusing on what it can do, Altman talked more about what it could mean and how ...