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What are you talking about. The engineers the ground level folk that a developing this stuff yes they're paid highly but they're not millionaires by any stretch in the imagination. Building a system that will crash the entire economic system of the Earth is not beneficial to them.
At a 2tr$ targeted valuation (yes that number is silly but it's also the IPO target) 1$mil is only a .05% equity stake and engineers usually get .1-.2%
Only if they divest. Which they can't really do because it isn't actually clear that the shares will increase in value long-term in fact dive into shares would put a scare on the market.
But that's not really my point, my point is if the AI completely collapses the financial system then by its definition a lot of money isn't really going to motivate people not as they truly believed money would become worthless.
The main engineers buildings this stuff are millionaires. They’ve been making probably $400k on the low end and we know of salaries over a million on the high end.
Still not enough to survive an actual world collapse though.