💰 Sam Altman says AI spending Is becoming a serious problem

💰 Sam Altman says AI spending Is becoming a serious problem Everyone talks about smarter AI. Almost nobody talks about the bill. According to Sam Altman, AI budgets are becoming a “huge issue” as customers consume far more tokens than expected. For perspective: • OpenAI’s heaviest internal user consumes about 100 billion tokens per month. • One external customer reportedly used 603 billion tokens in a single month. The reason is simple: AI agents don’t just answer questions. They make plans, call tools, read documents, retry failed tasks, review their own work, and verify results. A single user request can trigger hundreds of hidden AI actions behind the scenes. In other words, AI is turning cognition into a metered resource. And that’s where the economics get interesting. As AI gets cheaper, people use dramatically more of it. Economists call this Jevons Paradox: efficiency gains don’t always reduce costs, they often increase total consumption. The AI race is no longer just about who has the smartest model. It’s increasingly about who can generate the most value from every token they spend. @aipost 🏴