Sam Altman: AI Warning, Doomsday Prepper, and OpenAI's ChatGPT CEO

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is a self-admitted doomsday prepper who has a stash of guns, gold, and other survival goods. Altman's doomsday vision of AI gone wrong is commonplace in Silicon Valley, where a growing number of tech billionaires have poured money into post-apocalyptic contingency plans such as remote bunkers in recent years. Critics of tech’s obsession with a “Terminator”-like future have taken a cynical view of the recent AI panic, arguing that it is a convenient distraction from more pressing issues. Nonetheless, catering to paranoid tech bros has become a lucrative business for some firms, including Rising S, a Texas-based bunker manufacturer that builds shelters and installs them at a customer’s preferred destination.