Sam Parr discusses the backlash against Sam Altman and OpenAI, citing two violent attacks on Altman's home. The anger stems less from AI itself than from workers struggling with rent and hours while tech executives accumulate wealth and pour billions into the technology.
America hates AI. Like, I don't know if you've seen this, Sam Altman has had two assassination attempts.
They don't just hate AI, I think they specifically hate him.
Somebody drove by his house and threw a Molotov cocktail a week ago and then went to the office. And then they drove by and shot like a bullet at his house also.
There's so many people who are doing these breakdown videos where they're like, I work so hard, I work 60 hours a week, I don't have my parents to support me, and yet I still barely have enough money every single month to pay rent. I'm so angry.
So you say I'm not going to have a job and that my energy prices are going to go up because they're building this like megawatt data center. And then I hear that they're raising billions and billions of dollars and individual people are getting paid $100 million to go do this and that.
All after I've spent a decade doing what I thought I was told I had to do. It's okay to get debt to go to this college because it's going to be worth it. I'm going to get a good lawyer or accounting job that pays me enough to just live amazing life in a vicinity of a city that I want to live in. And yet I can't have kids. I can't afford them. I'm single because a lot of them are single now and I'm still struggling even though I'm putting the effort in. Why? Why is this broken? That's the sentiment.
