Sam Altman Offers a Trojan Horse to American Taxpayers

Sam Altman just offered the US - meaning every American - $42.6 billion. (Not each, sadly). He said giving the government a 5% stake in the company he runs, OpenAI, is the best way to ensure that Americans shared in the promised bounty from artificial intelligence. Before the Trump administration takes him up on the offer, it should organize a group trip to see Christopher Nolan’s new movie The Odyssey, whose opening act is the most famous gift in Western literature: a giant wooden horse, wheele