Before Sam Altman gained mainstream popularity alongside his artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, he went on an $85 million, 18-month real-estate shopping spree.
A child prodigy whose life was changed by a Macintosh computer, Altman dropped out of Stanford University to found tech start-up Loopt, and now his net worth sits at an estimated US$500 million
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him? Here, Elizabeth Weil profiles the Oppenheimer of our age in New York Magazine.