Sam Altman says he plans to steal all the world’s wealth
OpenAI lead Sam Altman has been a player in Silicon Valley for well over a decade, but 2023 was the year most people got their introduction to the CEO. He’s an unusual character, like tech leaders so often are. The New York Times did an unsettling profile of Altman titled “The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be.” It gives a picture of a man who’s far more aloof than you’d expect for someone so fond of saying his work might cause an apocalypse.
The profile is full of jaw-dropping details, but the dumbest comes at the end. Altman reveals that his ultimate plan is that his company will build a super-intelligence so powerful that it will “capture much of the world’s wealth.” The self-styled messiah said he intends to then redistribute that wealth back to the people, though he admitted to the interviewer that he has no idea how he might actually do something like that. All we know is it will involve his eyeball-scanning orb in some way.
