Sam Altman Feels ‘Politically Homeless’ As Frenemy Musk Proposes Third Occasion

Sam Altman is grappling along with his political alignment. The 40-year-old CEO of OpenAI, like lots of his fellow tech executives in recent times, has expressed that he doesn’t really feel at dwelling within the Democratic Occasion or the Republican Occasion. In an extended post on X, Altman lamented the truth that he’s now “politically homeless” and yearns for a technocratic utopia—one thing his as soon as pal and present rival Elon Musk has additionally been calling for along with his push to type a 3rd social gathering. Hmm…fascinating timing, yeah?

Altman, who claimed in his put up that he’s “not large on identities,” mapped his political evolution during the last couple many years—or quite, how political events have developed to maneuver away from him. “The world ought to get richer yearly via science and know-how, however everybody needs to be within the ‘up elevator,’” he wrote. He additionally articulated his beliefs that free markets are extra environment friendly than authorities, that innovation and entrepreneurship are essential, and that training is vital to America sustaining its edge. Fairly conventional libertarian fare, frankly.

“I believed this once I was 20, once I was 30, and now I’m 40 and nonetheless imagine it. The Democratic social gathering appeared fairly aligned with it once I was 20, dropping the plot once I was 30, and fully to have moved some other place at this level. So now I’m politically homeless. However that’s high-quality; I care a lot, way more about being American than any political social gathering,” Altman wrote.

I’m not large on identities, however I’m extraordinarily proud to be American. That is true day by day, however particularly at this time—I firmly imagine that is the best nation ever on Earth. The American miracle stands alone in world historical past.

I imagine in techno-capitalism. We must always encourage…

— Sam Altman (@sama) July 4, 2025

Altman, a billionaire, stated that he’s extra serious about candidates who wish to “make everybody have the stuff billionaires have as an alternative of how they will get rid of billionaires.” And it’s clear that he thinks the path to that consequence is techno-capitalism, an ideology that he explicitly endorses within the put up. “We must always encourage folks to make tons of cash after which additionally discover methods to broadly distribute wealth and share the compounding magic of capitalism.”

As Altman seeks a house for his capitalist utopia, a imaginative and prescient the place markets purportedly redistribute wealth quite than permitting a choose few like Altman to hoard it (he does know he can simply give his away if he desires, proper?), his former OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk has returned to dabbling with the formation of a 3rd social gathering. This push is spurred by Musk’s ongoing opposition to President Donald Trump’s “One Huge, Stunning Invoice,” which he argues  will add to the deficit.

“Independence Day is the proper time to ask if you’d like independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system! Ought to we create the America Occasion?” Musk asked on X. He’s been kicking round this “America Occasion” concept for a couple of month now, claiming that it’s going to characterize the “80 % within the center” whom he believes are at the moment with out enough illustration from Republicans or Democrats. The origin of that 80% determine is unclear. A Pew Research poll, for instance, discovered that 25% of individuals say neither social gathering represents them, 37% wished there have been extra political events to select from, and 26% believed extra events would assist remedy the nation’s issues.

Independence Day is the proper time to ask if you’d like independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system!

Ought to we create the America Occasion?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2025

It’s additionally value noting that whereas Musk claims his “America Occasion” would characterize a majority of individuals, he hasn’t actually issued any coverage positions or founding ideas for the social gathering. Presumably, it’d have a good quantity of overlap with Altman’s basic libertarian-leaning beliefs, which frequently framed as “frequent sense” ideologies. According to Politico, fellow tech bro Andrew Yang has reached out to Musk to push a third-party collaboration, probably utilizing his “non-partisan” Ahead Occasion as a mannequin.

Frankly, you’d be onerous pressed to discover a single difficulty that 80% of People all agree on, not to mention sufficient of them to function the muse of a political social gathering. However having a celebration of their very own will surely make it extra simple for the Musks and Altmans of the world to push their most well-liked pursuits. In fact, they’d need to settle their own disagreements first.