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If OpenAI causes human extinction, its current shareholders’ profit will be about -$250,000,000,000,000. This is around negative 227 times their current valuation.
(Codex's estimate of the net worth of everyone who owns any financial product containing OpenAI stock, and the pre-money valuation of OpenAI if they tried to raise right now)
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