OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman: Sure AI Will Probably Destroy The World, "But, In The Meantime, There'll Be Great Companies"

Sam Altman is one of the most powerful men there has ever been. He runs OpenAI, the lab that gave us ChatGPT. He’s just turned 40 and he looks like he was AI-generated to run a tech company: casual clothes, big salesman eyes, furrowed brows. He tries not to think too much about artificial intelligence turning on us, he has said. But if it does, “I have,” he told The New Yorker in 2016, “guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defence Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.” He also once said, “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime there’ll be great companies.”

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