New TechnologiesNeuralink, Mind Uploads, And Digital Gods: The Faith Behind ChatGPT Posted on April 27, 2026 by Administrator Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and the man behind ChatGPT, the AI tool used daily by hundreds of millions of people, paid a $10,000 deposit back in 2018 to join the waiting list for Nectome, a startup offering a brain-preservation process its co-founder called “100 percent fatal.” The goal is to one day upload his mind to the cloud for digital immortality. Altman has said he assumes his own brain “will be uploaded to the cloud.”