About halfway through the second act of Doomers, Matthew Gasda’s new play, inspired by the ousting of Sam Altman from OpenAI, a camo-wearing think-tank blogger (played by Ira Gamerman) asks the corporate board a question: “Have you heard about the gardener of Babylon?”
“His pride was a tree that bore fruit of pure knowledge,” the blogger continues. “But the tree began to grow uncontrollably, its branches reaching the heavens.... The tree’s roots broke through the garden walls, and soon people came from everywhere to taste its fruit. The garden became a forest, and the gardener realized he was no longer in control—just another wanderer in the woods of his own making.”
