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The stock market ended 2025 with strong double-digit gains, driven by resilient earnings, interest rate cuts, and enthusiasm for AI, despite challenges like tariffs and AI-related concerns, with major indexes reaching record highs and tech giants like Nvidia leading the rally.
Tech workers and Silicon Valley residents are increasingly preparing for potential AI-driven catastrophes, ranging from economic collapse to existential threats, by investing in survival bunkers, rethinking careers, and embracing a 'live in the moment' philosophy due to fears of an AI apocalypse.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has admitted that he loses sleep over the decision to release ChatGPT, fearing that it could lead to an acceleration in creating new AI systems that could contain complexities that he and his peers didn't understand before launching. Altman has been making public statements about his fears surrounding the future of AI, from concerns about competitors that may make evil algorithms to his decision to be a signatory on an open letter warning about AI causing an "extinction" event. However, Altman never admits in any of these statements that OpenAI maybe shouldn't have launched ChatGPT, or that the disruptiveness it's already brought may not be a good thing.