Sam Altman — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — is also a ‘doomsday prepper’

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Sam Altman — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — is also a ‘doomsday prepper’
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The OpenAI boss once reportedly admitted to having a survival stockpile that included guns, gold and antibiotics.

New Yorker recounted

. The same New Yorker profile revealed Altman’s “backup plan” was to fly to New Zealand with Thiel if society crumbled. It’s also a way for Altman and other frontrunners to tout their progress toward achieving artificial general intelligence, or systems with human-level abilities, when current services like ChatGPT are actually just “trained” to regurgitate information, Rushkoff added.

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.Rising S sells about 20 to 40 bunkers per year, depending on the size and complexity, according to Gary Lynch, a general manager at the firm for the last 20 years. The company lists prices ranging from $49,000 for its smallest model to more than $9.

, said he personally disagrees “with the default assumption that AI will be an evil Skynet” — but offered a defense of Altman and others who feel the need to call out the possibility.

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