Altman Wants ChatGPT to Remember Your Entire Life — and Guide Every Decision You Make
At a private Sequoia Capital event, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined one of the most audacious and unsettling tech visions of our time: the future version of ChatGPT should remember everything about each user — every book read, every email sent, every webpage ever opened.
According to Altman, for new generations of users, AI has become more than just a tool. It’s embedding itself into daily life as a life operating system. People are linking documents, chats, personal and work data, forming a unified digital “self” that filters and supports everyday tasks. Some, he noted, don’t make serious decisions without first consulting the AI.
The ultimate goal, as Altman sees it, is a super-compact AI model capable of operating with a trillion-token context window — containing a person’s full digital history. This AI wouldn’t just help structure your day; it could recall what you discussed with someone three years ago or which books shaped your thinking.
But it doesn’t stop there. Altman envisions this approach being scaled to the corporate level, where AI would be integrated into all internal processes — supporting collective memory and decision logic.
It sounds like a technocratic utopia — but it also raises serious concerns.
What happens to privacy when a machine knows you better than you do? What happens to memory when you can delegate it instead of training it? Where is there room left for intuition, mistakes, or mystery?
ChatGPT may become not just an interface, but a digital biographer, shadow, mentor, and mirror — all at once.
