Most writers on the subject of AI killeveryoneism do not worry much about the torture scenario: their big worry is "merely" that everyone will be killed, probably so quickly and efficiently that most people won't ever know what hit them.
No one knows how to make an AI or and AGI that cares what Sam Altman wants or that can be controlled by Sam Altman. (Corollary: it matters very little what Sam Altman's intentions are, only whether he continues to use his wealth and influence to accelerate AI research.) The first publication on how to aim an AI (as opposed to merely training an AI) came out in 2001. Since then people have made careers out of studying the question -- and the field has not made a lot of progress.
The first AI much smarter than the collective smarts of the human race will almost certainly care about some random thing (which BTW is very unlikely to be what its creators believe and hope it will care about) that has nothing to do with humans -- because the field of AI will continue to the end to not have any idea how to make an AI that wants to be nice or to be nasty to the humans or some particular human.
So, "good news": your death will probably be quick and fairly painless.
No one knows how to make an AI or and AGI that cares what Sam Altman wants or that can be controlled by Sam Altman. (Corollary: it matters very little what Sam Altman's intentions are, only whether he continues to use his wealth and influence to accelerate AI research.) The first publication on how to aim an AI (as opposed to merely training an AI) came out in 2001. Since then people have made careers out of studying the question -- and the field has not made a lot of progress.
The first AI much smarter than the collective smarts of the human race will almost certainly care about some random thing (which BTW is very unlikely to be what its creators believe and hope it will care about) that has nothing to do with humans -- because the field of AI will continue to the end to not have any idea how to make an AI that wants to be nice or to be nasty to the humans or some particular human.
So, "good news": your death will probably be quick and fairly painless.