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Sam Altman Among 25 People on Waitlist for 'Fatal' Brain Preservation That Will Keep Them Digitally Immortal

Sam Altman (Credit: Steve Jennings/Flickr / Creative Commons)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is among a small group of tech figures linked to a controversial brain preservation startup, Nectome, which claims it may one day allow human consciousness to be digitally reconstructed—at the cost of death.

The idea, widely reported in 2018, centres on a process described by its creators as '100 percent fatal,' raising ethical questions that continue to shadow the concept of 'mind uploading.'

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