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☆ The ultra-rich are obsessed with their doomsday bunkers — but Sam Altman joked they won't really matter if there's an AI apocalypse
  + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
However, one of tech's buzziest bros, Sam Altman, says he has "structures" — but not a bunker. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementDoomsday predictions like nuclear war, climate change, or a zombie apocalypse have ratcheted up the ultra-rich's obsession with luxury bunkers. However, one Silicon Valley tech bro joked that these bunkers may not be useful in the case of an AI apocalypse. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I have like structures, but I wouldn't say a bunker," Altman added without clarifying what these structures were.
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☆ The tech boom created billionaires and 'a whole lot of really poor, unhappy people,' says prolific author Douglas Rushkoff
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Writer and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff has changed his thinking on the digital boom, he told Wired. Rushkoff, who now teaches, said the digital economy made billionaires, but also "poor, unhappy people." He told his students he was "excited" in the 1990s about the possibilities of the digital economy. Despite the optimism for the potentials of the digital economy he had decades ago, Rushkoff has changed his thinking, Wired reports. He also told Wired that he's "come to see these technologies as intrinsically antihuman."
☆ See inside the luxury bunkers where the super-rich reportedly plan to save themselves from a future apocalypse
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Tech billionaires are building luxury doomsday bunkers, according to a tell-all book by Douglas Rushkoff. Vivos installing a shelter Courtesy of VivosRushkoff, who often writes about the future of technology and is known for his association with early cyberpunk culture, said he was invited to a remote resort to talk with five of the world's wealthiest men about the future of the planet. (Rushkoff did not specify who spoke to him at the resort, but said at least two of the men were billionaires.) At the event, the City University of New York professor said he was repeatedly asked about the best ways to survive climate change or societal collapse, as the executives detailed their plans to build underground bunkers and avoid what they called "The Event." Source: The Guardian, "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires"
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