An employee told me he was quitting to join OpenAI in 2016. I said it was a bad idea. Now he's an AI billionaire.

An employee told me he was quitting to join OpenAI in 2016. I said it was a bad idea. Now he's an AI billionaire.

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In 2016, Jack Clark walked up to me in Bloomberg's San Francisco newsroom and asked if we could go for a walk. As an editor, it's often not good when one of your reporters makes a request like this.

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