New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has changed his name on X (formerly Twitter) to Ram Altman after facing online backlash over his recent comments on computer memory and the global supply of DRAM.

Altman made the change after a user suggested the new name in response to one of his posts. The suggestion came amid criticism of his earlier remarks that having dedicated DRAM in personal computers was a "quite terrible" allocation of the world's limited memory supply.

Amid the backlash, Altman argued that people should not surrender control of the future to superintelligence, adding that doing so would ultimately constrain the progress of artificial intelligence.

"People should always be in control of the future. OpenAI is against ...