Congress gives Sam Altman a big kiss
Our collective freakout about artificial intelligence soon turned to concerns that it might end human life on Earth, or at least take away all of our jobs. Some of these concerns came from people like Sam Altman himself, who is fond of saying his own technology might bring about the apocalypse if he screws it up.
OpenAI started calling on Congress to regulate the space, which sounds like a bizarre strategy until you consider the fact that regulations can help a company if it makes entering the market too expensive for new competitors.
So far, regulators bought into the grift. Altman went before Congress in May for one of the friendliest hearings a tech CEO has seen in years, praising him for his intelligence and reasonable attitude, and even asking him if he’d be interested in running a new agency designed to regulate his own industry.
