What Sam Altman thinks about nuclear power
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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1 dated position, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Sam Altman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsA lot more people have died of air pollution than nuclear reactors, for example. But most people worry more about living next to a nuclear reactor than a coal plant. But something about the way we’re wired is that although there’s many different kinds of risks we have to confront, the ones that make a good climax scene of a movie carry much more weight with us than the ones that are very bad over a long period of time but on a slow burn.
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