OpenAI Asks Which Future You Want to Build, and the Comments Section Has Already Turned In Four Answers

On October 30, OpenAI posted a tweet whose main text was just one sentence: There are many futures. Which do you want to build? The accompanying video was called THE MUSEUM OF WHAT COULD BE. In the footage, several cartoon figures stand with their backs to the camera in a light-brown exhibition hall, as if visiting a future that hasn’t been finalized yet.

When Jimmy Apples reposted it, he said that it was good that our trajectory wasn’t shot as quite so apocalyptic; that energy is still there. Placed within OpenAI’s narrative of recent years, this assessment isn’t mere courtesy. Model capabilities, product roadmaps, and regulatory controversies often slide toward disaster-movie territory as soon as they’re mentioned. This time OpenAI changed the question, taking the future out of the company roadmap and tossing it into the comments section.

The comments section had no unified answer. Someone wrote 'the one where we all win,' asking for a version where everyone wins. Someone directly urged GPT 6.1 Astra. Someone wrote only 'One where I am in it,' wanting to reserve a place for themselves in the future picture. Others aimed at open source, saying they wanted a future where AI is open and naming OpenAI as destroying it, with #OpenSource4o and #OpenSource41.

Some weren’t buying it. Robby James said the only future OpenAI is building is Mad Max. Set next to the mild-mannered exhibition hall in the video, the contrast is stark.

Shruti’s reply was just one image.

A more concrete wish came from PK: the one where the robots do laundry. The future doesn’t have to be a civilization-level proposition; first let the robots do the laundry. This reply feels more like everyday life than any grand slogan.

Leopold Arsehatbender used an image to ask Jimmy, how does this IPO? The question is direct: there can be many futures, but only one financial statement.

ahtoshkaa’s reply was colder: the perfect future is one with no humans, or nothing at all. The image is below.

Kunal posted a video and asked, when will this come true?

Ilia Stepin posted a nighttime car-crash video with no caption. Under this question about the future, the meaning isn’t complicated.

What’s really interesting about this OpenAI tweet is that it turned future storytelling into an open-ended fill-in-the-blank. The video offers a quiet museum, and the comments section immediately split into a wishing well, a complaints box, and a joke section. Some want open source, some want Astra, some want laundry robots, and some want to be present themselves. Each one answers the same question, but the answers point to completely different products, distributions, and power structures.

Original tweet: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2116253388883345623
Jimmy Apples repost: https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/2116258378163142886