"King of the cannibals": How Sam Altman took over Silicon Valley

He and Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and owner of what used to be Twitter, created OpenAI as a nonprofit with the aim of warning and protecting the world against a technology Musk believed could wipe out humanity by accident. Altman appeared to agree: "Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity," he wrote on his personal blog before the company's launch in 2015, adding that it "does not have to be the inherently evil sci-fi version to kill us all." But the technology's promise was too brilliant to pass up. It just needed the right regulation, and he wanted to set up a global governing board to erect boundaries for the tool's use.