Sam Altman baffles the internet saying he “can’t imagine” raising his own baby without ChatGPT

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman left the internet stunned after his appearance on The Tonight Show, where he admitted he “cannot imagine” raising his infant without the help of ChatGPT.

AI has well and truly infiltrated the daily lives of corporate Americans. From Google’s Gemini to Anthropic’s Claude, the space is more competitive than ever as more and more companies integrate artificial intelligence into their services.

ChatGPT is perhaps the most famous of these AIs on the market. Owned and developed by OpenAI, it became the spearhead that thrust AI into the limelight, in no small part thanks to its image-generating capabilities.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been vocal about his development process with ChatGPT on social media, and even made an appearance on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon in early December 2025 to talk about his famous chatbot.

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Sam Altman admits he relies on ChatGPT to help raise his baby

During the show, Atlman revealed just how integral his own product is to his daily life, admitting that he can’t fathom a world where he raises his own child without the help of ChatGPT.

“I feel kind of bad about it, because we have this genius-level intelligence and everything, waiting to unravel the mysteries of humanity. And I’m like, ‘Why does my kid [keep] dropping his pizza on the floor and laughing?’

“I feel like I’m not asking a good enough question. I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT. Clearly, people did it for a long time, no problem. …I have relied on it so much.”

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Altman went on to share an anecdote about a conversation he’d had with another parent, who made him worried that his six-month-old child wasn’t crawling yet. Panicked, Altman claimed he rushed to the bathroom to ask his own chatbot if this was part of the normal development process.

“I got this great answer,” he explained, saying that ChatGPT told him, “‘By the way, you’re the CEO of OpenAI. You’re probably around all these high-achieving people. Maybe you don’t want to project that onto your kid. You should just relax. You’ll be fine.”

While the crowd couldn’t help but laugh at Altman’s humorous personal story, social media users were more skeptical, with many shocked that the tech CEO relied so heavily on his own product to do something that humans have been successfully doing for hundreds of thousands of years.

Altman himself has stated that his child will likely “never ever” be smarter than artificial intelligence and even doubted that they would attend college, predicting that the US education system will look drastically different in the future and that kids might “never know a world where products and services aren’t way smarter than them.”

This is just the latest conversation regarding AI and child development to crop up online after health experts warned that watching AI-generated content could impact what youngsters believe to be real and alter their perception of reality.