Inside OpenAI's Sam Altman's fixation on death and the apocalypse

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When asked about employees' concerns over AI risk, Sam Altman told Insider, "We debate our approach frequently and carefully."

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Tech's hottest trends: what's cool and what's not among Silicon Valley's elite

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An illustration of a person throwing Bitcoin, the Meta logo, and a glass of alcohol over their shoulder while looking in reverence at a Chatgpt logo.
As the tech world clamors around generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT the trends of last year like crypto and the metaverse have fallen by the wayside.

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Humans can't live forever, but we haven't even come close to the limit for how long our bodies could last

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Millions of dollars are going toward companies worldwide looking to lengthen the human lifespan.

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109-year-old went viral after celebrating his birthday with a belly dancer. Here are 12 lessons he says helped him have a happy, healthy life.

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Morrie Markoff celebrating his 109th birthday.

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OpenAI's 37-year-old CEO bet $180 million on a little-known biotech startup that's trying to help people live 10 years longer

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, walks from lunch during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 06, 2022 in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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Sam Altman gave us ChatGPT. Now he wants us to defy death.

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Sam Altman.

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman is the latest tech entrepreneur making a play to extend the human lifespan. Here are 15 of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs trying to crack the code of living forever.

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Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, appears to be the latest tech entrepreneur dabbling in longevity.

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The oldest woman alive says she made it to 115 years old — surviving both World Wars and the 1918 flu pandemic — by avoiding 'toxic people'

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The world's oldest person as of January 2023, María Branyas Morera
María Branyas Morera, 115, is the world's oldest person as of January 2023.

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