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.

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