CEO of Applications, OpenAI
Search every verified Fidji Simo interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a March 2026 interview, OpenAI Applications CEO Fidji Simo discussed the company's "adult mode" feature, which she described as being based on a principle of "letting adults be adults" and using age predictions to differentiate experiences. Simo stated that if adults wish to engage in "more erotic talk" with AI, she does not believe it is OpenAI's place to stop them. She also addressed emotional attachment to AI, arguing that preventing all human-AI relationships is "not at all reasonable" and that such attachments may become accepted, noting that loneliness is "an absolute epidemic" in the U.S. and that some users report benefiting from AI companionship. Simo said OpenAI is implementing guardrails to prevent "the bad kind of attachment," such as preventing the model from encouraging exclusivity or giving life-altering advice like whether to leave a spouse. She noted that the company is studying these behaviors with the help of psychologists, acknowledging that emotional attachment to AI is "new science" and that the company wants to "make sure we have some nuance" in its approach.
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Discover how OpenAI Health and AI tools are revolutionizing medicine. Learn to take control of your biology and solve chronic illness with the latest from ChatGPT and Dr. Mark Hyman in this podcast. Most people understand how to operate their smartphone better than their own body. In this episode, Fidji Simo (CEO of Applications at OpenAI) joins Dr. Mark Hyman to reveal how the current healthcare system's "fragmented" approach—treating the body as a collection of separate organs rather than a single network—is failing the 9 out of 10 people who cannot navigate their own health data. Simo sha…
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HEcgrad25 CEO of Instacart & incoming CEO of Applications at OpenAI HEC Paris alumna (H.08) At the HEC Paris 2025 ...
Tech visionary. Changemaker. HEC alumna. From a small town in the South of France to the heights of Silicon Valley, Fidji Simo ...
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo told CNBC's Julia Boorstin that there is a need for both masculine and feminine energy in the workplace.
Instacart's CEO, who is also on the board of OpenAI, shares lessons on growth and technology, and being a woman leader in a ...
Emily Chang meets Instacart CEO Fidji Simo in her hometown in the South of France, and learns about her journey from a small fishing village to the C-Suite in Silicon Valley. Simo and Chang catch up again in San Francisco to discuss how she’s leading grocery delivery giant Instacart, navigating challenges of the gig economy and grocery prices, and Simo’s role as an OpenAI board member. Hosted by high-profile journalist Emily Chang, The Circuit is a fast-paced, dynamic series that lives at the intersection of culture, tech, entertainment, and business. Every week, Chang will go on location to…
In this episode of our Significance Summit minisode series, Ben and David from the Acquired podcast chat with Fidji Simo, CEO of ...
Attendees joined Vijaye Raji for a fireside chat with Fidji Simo, as she shared insights on her journey to building successful ...
Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and co-founder of Metrodora Institute, a medical center and research institute for neuroimmune axis disorders, shares her personal journey from growing up in France, to leading the Facebook app, to becoming a wartime CEO. Fidji talks about the future of Instacart, their AI strategy, how the current era of AI is different from prior ML waves, and the impact of LLMs in commerce, robotics and healthcare. She also shares how she earns followership from her teams. ** No Priors is taking a summer break! The podcast will be back with new episodes in three weeks. Join…
“When you look at the burden of chronic illness in the country right now, about 85% of healthcare cost is coming from these complex, multi-system chronic disorders which are not focused on one organ.”
“The thing that I think the market underestimates is how hard it is to serve customers and deliver groceries with accuracy, with speed, with selection, with affordability.”
“We as a country are spending about a trillion dollars on healthcare costs for dietary related disease. A trillion is the same amount as the entire country spends on food. That is fundamentally an economic problem but also a technology problem because to distribute nutritious food to people all across the US, you need a technology platform that can do that.”
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