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Sometimes when I’m drawing about a person or entity, I’ll research about my subject more than I actually have to and will occasionally learn something interesting. I learned that Sam Altman is Jewish, a college dropout, once got scurvy, is gay, in a relationship, lives in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, was issued Indonesia’s first Golden Visa (it’s a ten-year border pass), and is a prepper. Wait, what now? A prepper? What’s a prepper? That was another internet rabbit hole I had to go down after hearing about that Golden Visa shit and I learned what a prepper is. A prepper is a person who prepares for natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, and the collapse of civilization.

Now I’m even more terrified of Artificial Intelligence. If the guy who co-founded an AI corporation is preparing for the collapse of civilization, yeah… I’m fucking concerned, fuckers.

This cartoon was drawn Wednesday, November 22 because everybody wanted to get out of town before Thanksgiving and not work on Friday either. I hope it stood the test of time (five days) and that no other cartoonist published something similar.

Update 11/26/2023: It survived.

I didn’t use Google Images (which now uses AI) to research the San Francisco skyline for the background in this cartoon. I used the photos on my iPhone (which probably also uses AI) from my recent visit to the city. This was also drawn on my iPad 100 percent by me, not AI.

We worry about Trumper brownshirts coming for us but in the end, it’ll probably be AI.

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