Meet OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who learned to code at 8 and is a doomsday prepper with a stash of gold, guns, and gas masks
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Same as most of these guys: born to privilege (Sam's mom is a dermatologist), went to a reasonably exclusive prep school (Burroughs in St. Louis, IIRC), goes to a university where investors hang around the STEM departments and hand 20-year-olds cheques and tell them they're Jesus Christ (Stanford, of course) which then plugs them into the tech and VC ecosystem that means they rarely have to consider the downsides of what they're doing or face a consequence.