Sam Altman, 38-year-old co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, is constantly in fear of his own death and a potential doomsday for humanity. It has been reported business insider referring to colleagues and relatives of the businessman.
Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot in 2022, Altman has repeatedly acknowledged risks to humanity due to the rapid evolution of AI systems.
According to the publication, Altman’s mother revealed in 2016 that she was prone to “cyberchondria,” citing her obsession with researching her illnesses online. One fellow investor said that Altman’s speeches pointed to a “serious underestimation of the risks in society”, up to disasters for all Earth’s inhabitants.
In 2016, Altman admitted that he had a warehouse of weapons, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks. He also said he owns a large piece of land in Big Sur, California, where he plans to fly “in the event of a deadly synthetic virus or nuclear war.”
Altman said that when the coronavirus pandemic broke out, he spent the first few weeks in isolation, completely minimizing contact with anyone and disinfecting all food, down to vegetables. An investor friend believes Altman’s fears have intensified since his father’s death in 2018.
Still, Altman dismissed the idea that he wanted to live forever as a “cartoon”. According to the businessman, achieving immortality has no purpose, only a desire to “give people 10 more years of healthy, energetic life.”
Formerly Sam Altman judicial He talked about the advantages of artificial intelligence and the darkest scenario for the development of artificial intelligence for humanity.