OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, envisions a future where we'll all be renting our brains from him. He plans to charge us for access to the very data he's already harvested from us, all from his delightfully villainous skull-shaped lair. Because who needs original thought when you can subscribe?

<p>EVIL LAIR, SOUTH PACIFIC &#8211; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has suggested that intelligence could someday be treated as a utility, with people paying him directly to access materials stolen from them en masse, all from a subterranean lair shaped like a skull. “At OpenAI, we believe that intelligence is the commodity of the future,” intoned [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/05/we-see-a-future-where-intelligence-is-a-utility-and-people-buy-it-from-us-says-sam-altma...