I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong,” said Sam Altman, testifying before a Senate committee in 2023 in talking about the potential danger of artificial intelligence. With his position as CEO of OpenAI,

When Sam Altman first told ABC News in March 2023 that he and his OpenAI colleagues were “a little bit scared” of just how good the artificial intelligence (AI) systems they were unleashing are, it sounded like a cautious scientist’s plea for sober guardrails.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a household name after the release of OpenAI's groundbreaking AI model, ChatGPT.