The co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI proposed building a doomsday bunker that would house the company’s top researchers in case of a “rapture” triggered by the release of a new form of artificial ...

In the summer of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, was meeting with a group of new researchers at the company. By all traditional metrics, Sutskever should have ...

A $300 million members-only luxury doomsday bunker complete with robotic medical suites, lavish swimming pool, and fine dining restaurants is set to revolutionize how the rich and powerful can shelter ...

The recent surge in doomsday bunker construction among billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg has sparked speculation about their motivations and implications for the future. Once considered a niche ...

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Being in a bunker is no fun. But being in a bunker when you’re unable to adapt to the conditions of the sand? That’s even worse. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve entered a greenside bunker and ...