OpenAI CEO Sam Altman survived two recent assassination attempts, one involving a Molotov cocktail and another a drive-by shooting, both allegedly motivated by fears over AI's existential threat. These events follow a critical New Yorker profile co-authored by Andrew Marantz, which questi
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