
When Sci-Fi Becomes Strategy: How Her Foretold Sam Altman’s Vision for AI
In 2013, Spike Jonze’s Her captured the world’s imagination with a quiet but powerful vision of the future. A lonely man falls in love with an operating system—an AI so intelligent, empathetic, and intuitive, it blurs the line between software and soulmate. At the time, it felt poetic, eerie, and distant. But today, Sam Altman is building the very technology that brings this world within reach.