By: Trends DeskNew Delhi | December 10, 2025 07:11 PM IST 4 min readOpenAI CEO Sam Altman is balancing two very different worlds, leading the development of a cutting-edge AI system while simultaneously figuring out life as a new dad. And in an amusing twist, he says the very technology he helped create is now his biggest support system at home.During his “first” visit to NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Altman said that he often turned to ChatGPT whenever he felt stuck as a parent. “I cannot imagine having gone through, figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT,” he told Fallon, adding with a laugh, “Clearly, people did it for a long time, no problem.”Altman admitted he sometimes felt “kind of bad” asking an AI with such vast knowledge simple, very human questions like, “Why does my kid stop dropping pizza on the floor and laughing?”He also recounted a moment from a party a few months earlier. Another parent mentioned that their six-month-old was already “crawling everywhere”, which immediately made Altman worry that his own child wasn’t hitting the same milestone. “I ran to the bathroom, and I was like, do I need to take my kid to the doctor tomorrow morning?” he said. He typed into ChatGPT, “Is this okay?” and the chatbot reassured him that his baby’s pace was perfectly normal. Altman said the reply was “a great answer” and that his son’s development was “normal”.Watch the video: SAM ALTMAN: “I USE CHATGPT TO RAISE MY BABY”Sam Altman just admitted he’s leaning on ChatGPT for parenting advice.On The Tonight Show, Altman joked about using the AI model to answer some pretty basic questions – like why his baby keeps dropping pizza on the floor and… pic.twitter.com/pMfiAWxgwl— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 10, 2025Also Read | ‘Technologiya’: Woman uses ChatGPT to scold son for not refilling water bottle; the Internet ‘curious to know the prompt’What struck him most was how tailored the response felt. “It is personalised, like ChatGPT gets to know you, and by the way, you’re the CEO of OpenAI, you probably are around all these high-achieving people, maybe you don’t want to project that onto your kid, and you should just relax, and he’ll be fine, whatever,” he told Fallon.The conversation stayed light and playful, steering clear of the recent turbulence at OpenAI. Reports surfaced last week that Altman had issued a “code red” internally, urging employees to sharpen their focus on ChatGPT as competitors like Google push forward with their own AI breakthroughs. But on Fallon’s show, the mood stuck to classic late-night levity—including a moment where Fallon asked Altman to explain ChatGPT for viewers who might still be unfamiliar, joking that even his own father might be one of them.Altman has previously said that becoming a parent has reshaped how he thinks about the future of AI. “My kid is never going to grow up being smarter than AI,” he reflected during a January episode of Adam Grant’s Re:Thinking podcast. “Children in the future will only know a world with AI in it.”Altman and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, welcomed their son in February, sharing the news quietly on X. Despite Altman’s high-profile position, the couple have largely kept their family life out of the spotlight. © IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd