If you asked AI to create the ultimate tech bro, it would probably come up with Sam Altman.

He models his style on Steve Jobs, vies with Elon Musk on his vision for humanity, has bio-hacking ambitions like Jeff Bezos, a property empire like Mark Zuckerberg and now is entangled in more drama than all of them combined.

The 38-year-old wunderkind and admitted doomsday prepper with a secret gun-and-gold stacked lair, one of the key players in the artificial intelligence revolution whose worth is north of $500 million, is currently embroiled in Silicon Valley’s biggest soap opera.

Until Friday, Altman — a prodigy who began coding at 8 in his native St. Louis, began his first startup at 19 and frequently draws parallels between himself and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer — was CEO of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm until he was abruptly sacked, prompting an extraordinary drama which appeared to have ended Tuesday night, at last temporarily.

Nobody, even some of the top names in artificial intelligence, knows exactly why. But many say the mystery has to do with the pace at which artificial intelligence is progressing and how Altman is directing it.

OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever reportedly voiced concerns about how fast Altman was moving things without enough attention being paid to safety by OpenAI’s board — then fired him Friday, then voiced regret.

In six days and counting filled with corporate scheming Altman tried to mount a comeback from a “war room” in his San Francisco mansion, failed on the first attempt, took a job with OpenAI’s biggest investor Microsoft, gained the support of 700 of OpenAI’s 770 workers and late on Tuesday was reinstated as CEO.

Altman co-founded OpenAI with Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X, formerly Twitter in 2015. Their original aim was to prevent artificial intelligence from accidentally wiping out humanity.

Musk has since cut ties with the company and has criticized how it’s being run.

Musk, for his part, apparently supported Altman’s ouster. “I am very worried,” Musk posted to X on Sunday, citing Ilya Sutskever’s reported concerns over Altman. “Ilya has a good moral compass and does not seek power. He would not take such drastic action unless he felt it was absolutely necessary.”

OpenAI is best known for unleashing ChatGPT — a kind of narrow-band artificial intelligence that can respond to one task — on the world.

But what everyone is waiting for is AGI, or artificial general intelligence, in which machines basically will be able to do a lot of what humans do — just a billion times better and faster.

Though Altman himself and others say that mastery of AGI is a ways off, perhaps at least 2029 or 2030, others believe researchers may already be there.

But what everyone is waiting for is AGI, or artificial general intelligence, in which machines basically will be able to do a lot of what humans do — just a billion times better and faster.

“If AI is going to be a living god on earth, AGI is probably going to be 80 to 90 percent of that step,” one AI researcher who did not want to be publicly identified told The Post.

Ray Kurzweil, a principal engineer at Google and one of the world’s foremost experts on AI, told The Post he is on Altman’s side in the mess.

“His firing was very unusual, shocking really,” Kurzweil said. “I’ve never seen anything like this happen before. This happened out of the blue.

“It has to do with people’s concerns about whether the current process to keep the cutting edge of AI safe or not. But this is not the way to handle it. I think Altman was careful on that point.”

But the MIT-educated Gary Marcus, a leading expert on AI and the founder of Robust.Ai and Geometric.AI, told The Post that he believes the OpenAI board probably did the right thing in kicking Altman out when they did.

“I think that the (OpenAI) board thinks that Sam was not candid enough about something that was material to the board,” Marcus said.

“The board is non-profit, they are not there to make money, they are there to make sure AI works to the benefit of humanity. I think the board’s actions, sticking to their guns even under enormous pressure, shows that they are genuinely concerned about this.