Good morning. On Fortune’s radar today:
- OpenAI’s Altman: Don’t worry, the risks will be worth it .
- Plague escapes Russian lab; quarantine imposed in eastern Siberia.
- The human population is about to start shrinking.
- Markets: Broadly up.
- The Fed is hurting the price of gold.
- AI kills more jobs than it creates.
- Etsy witches are part of a $2.3 billion industry .