"the real existential risk is that we are literally leading to the overconsumption of our planet. We are leading to the enormous exploitation of labor in the production of these technologies as well as the application of these technologies and the economic fallout that it could have when it starts to automate away a lot of people’s jobs, and we are allowing the tech industry to consolidate this extraordinary degree of resources unlike anything ever before."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-karen-hao/

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