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Check the Uber app. The Economist. Sam Oldman was always fascinated with computers.

At the age of eight, he learned to code and take apart a Macintosh

computer, paving the way for him to study computer science at Stanford University.

There he developed a mobile app with two classmates and after two

years he dropped out to work on it full-time. The, Loopped, shared users locations with their friends.

It was part of the first group of eight companies at Start-Up Accelerator

Y-Combinator, which has a knack for creating unicorns.

Looped was sold for $43 million in 2012 and after a stint running his own venture

fund Sam was chosen by Y-combinator's founder as his successor.

This was 2014, and Sam was 28 years old.

The following year Sam got together with Elon Musk to co-found a non-profit company called Open AI. Its aim was to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence while ensuring that the technology

wasn't cataclysmic for humanity.

We sit there all day and stress about what this means for sort of the

continuation of humanity and how we want to design a structure where the world

...