OpenAI is building tech that could shake the very foundations of politics, the labor market, and the information ecosystem itself. But don’t worry! The company’s CEO Sam Altman has had a consistent message for a worried public: our famously functional lawmakers and heads of state will step in and save the world from the tech he’s building. “I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong,” Altman told Congress last month. “And we want to be vocal about that. We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.” Soon he embarked on a world tour, where that conciliatory tone was briefly interrupted when the threat of too much regulation caused Altman to threaten to leave Europe entirely. He later backtracked, though, and now the mercurial CEO is back to his greatest hits: telling world leaders that they’re our best hope of keeping his company’s tech from — ahem — causing exactly the sort of grim AI apocalypse he’s said to be personally quite concerned about. Whether that concern is legitimate or an ingenious form of marketing remains somewhat hazy. After all, the idea that a new piece of tech is so powerful that it could threaten the entire world is, on a certain level, kind of a humblebrag. Even if it’s true, it’s catnip to investors. What’s clear, though, is Altman’s messaging remains consistent: he’s very hopeful, he’s telling world leaders again and again, that they’ll successfully regulate his dangerous new tech. “I have…OpenAI CEO Hopeful World Leaders Will Save Us From AI He's Building