Sam Altman on AI Speed Limits, Jobs and OpenAI’s Robot Ambitions
In Stanford’s latest interview, Sam Altman explains his concerns about AI’s pace, the future of work and OpenAI’s expanding bet on robots.
FOMAT stands for Fear of Missing Agent Time: the worry that AI agents could be doing useful work while their user is sleeping, resting or occupied elsewhere. The term applies especially to coding agents that can continue a task without constant prompting. Michael Richman used it in an April 2026 conference talk. It is informal developer slang, rather than a medical diagnosis or productivity metric. A session can be working, waiting for a decision or deliberately stopped; keeping it active does not establish that its output is valuable. The concept highlights the human attention needed to supervise agentic AI.
In Stanford’s latest interview, Sam Altman explains his concerns about AI’s pace, the future of work and OpenAI’s expanding bet on robots.
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