Sam Altman’s Career Coach Teaches AI Bosses ‘Emotional Clarity’

“Every person in every AI lab that I’ve met so far is a sweetheart,” Joe Hudson says while walking along a sidewalk in San Francisco. He’s in town to coach at OpenAI, which sends a car to drive him 55 miles south from his home in Sebastopol, California, every other week. “They care. They think about it a lot, what they’re doing in the world, and they really want it to be a good thing. Are they human? Yes. Does everybody have their foibles? Absolutely.”

As one of the most sought-after executive coaches in Silicon Valley, Hudson is viewing ...