Did Sam Altman predict a pandemic?
- MAX
- Jul 28, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 8, 2023
VIDEO: (6:23) Once at a party when asked about his hobbies he famously remarked Well, I like racing cars including two McLarens and an old Tesla. I like flying rented planes all over California. Oh, and an odd one - I prep for survival.
Seeing the bemused looks on the faces of his audience, he further explained the problem is when my friends get drunk they talk about the ways the world will end.
"After a Dutch lab modified the H5N1 bird-flu virus, five years ago, making it super contagious, the chance of a lethal synthetic virus being released in the next twenty years became, well, nonzero."
According to the video, Altman said this in 2016.
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