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Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, calls AI, quote,

the greatest force for economic empowerment,

in a lot of people getting rich we have ever seen.

But as David Streitfeld wrote in an incisive and very funny New York Times piece,

quote, despite all the talk of AI being an unlimited wealth-generating machine,

the people getting rich are pretty much the ones who are already rich.

Altman's rosy proclamation that AI will transform humanity should be read alongside the fact

that he said in 2016 that he was gathering quote, guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics,

...