Sam Altman says on Jimmy Fallon’s show that he used ChatGPT to help raise his eight-month-old son
Sam Altman and his husband Oliver Mulherin (software engineer) welcomed a son via surrogacy in February 2025. Altman announced it in a post on X on February 22, 2025: he said that he was welcoming the little boy to the world, that the baby had come early, and that he would be in the NICU for a while.
Altman appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on December 8, 2025. When Fallon asked about the baby’s age, Altman said he was eight months old. When Fallon asked whether he used ChatGPT to help raise the child, Altman replied that he felt kind of bad about it and that he could not imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT. He said that clearly people had done it for a long time with no problem. He gave as an example that he had once asked ChatGPT because his son was not crawling.
Original sources:
Title: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Husband Welcome Baby Boy Born by Surrogacy Publisher: Breitbart Publication date: 2025-02-24 URL：https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/02/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-and-husband-welcome-baby-boy-born-by-surrogacy/ Source nature: media report Verification status: relevant passages read in this release; accessed 2026-10-25 Supporting content: born via surrogacy, husband is software engineer Oliver Mulherin, Altman’s original post.
Title: OpenAI CEO Says He "Couldn't Imagine" Raising His Newborn Without ChatGPT Publisher: Scary Mommy Publication date: 2025-12-10 URL：https://www.scarymommy.com/entertainment/openai-owner-raising-newborn-with-chatgpt-sam-altman Source nature: media report Verification status: relevant passages read in this release; accessed 2026-10-25 Supporting content: Fallon interview conversation, eight months, ChatGPT usage in his own words.
Title: Sam Altman Says He Can't Imagine Parenthood Without ChatGPT Publisher: Business Insider Publication date: 2025-12-09 URL：https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-chatgpt-parenting-jimmy-fallon-2025-12 Source nature: media report Verification status: relevant passages read in this release; accessed 2026-10-25 Supporting content: show details and the crawling consultation example.
ABAB AI Insight
This event contains two time points: the surrogacy birth announcement in February 2025 and the television interview in December 2025. In the interview, Altman described ChatGPT as a consultation tool in raising a newborn and publicly said that he relied on it heavily, while also acknowledging that people had long managed without it.
In public reports, his husband Oliver Mulherin is described as a software engineer, and the two married in 2024. Public details about the surrogacy process and the surrogate mother are limited; it is only confirmed that the baby was born early and was admitted to the NICU.
The interview was in the format of a late-night talk show, with the content centered on personal experience and product use. Follow-up attention will focus on OpenAI-related business developments and whether Altman discloses further family-related details.
ABAB News · Law of perception
A public interview can place product use alongside personal family experience.
A surrogacy birth and a later interview can be recorded as separate facts.
Statements about relying on a tool can also include the qualifier that it could have been done without it before.