Sam Altman Thinks He’s the Prometheus of Silicon Valley

In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan who is sentenced to eternal torture by Zeus after stealing fire from Olympus and gifting it to humanity. He is a democratizing figure who breaks out a source of great power from its confines among the gods to give it to the everyday folk. In Silicon Valley, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman views himself in a similar light. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Altman was asked to describe his personal mission and how he would like to be remembered in the history of AI. “And what I would really like, if the history books ever write anything about me at all, it’d be great if they don’t, is just the work that OpenAI did really made sure that AI was a fundamental…