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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns against AI dominance by a few powerful players

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said society and AI models should co-evolve, warning against control by a few powerful companies and opposing government regulation.

AI News Feed · 2026-08-26 10:36

Altman is the latest tech founder to appear on the weekly podcast, which began in 2025 with Spotify's Daniel Ek as the first guest. He said the right approach is for people to deeply control the future, and he prefers liberty over safety when it comes to AI regulation. He argued against governments regulating AI, saying there are people so nervous about the magnitude of risks that they feel a need to protect the world and would trade off a lot of liberty for safety.

His stance puts him in direct opposition to Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, who said in June 2026 that Anthropic's latest Mythos model could prove a risk to the financial sector and infrastructure and present a challenge to cybersecurity. Altman said that is the wrong way around.

Altman also revealed that progress has been slower than he expected after OpenAI released GPT-4 in 2023. "I thought when we got to GPT-4, which was back in 2023, that very quickly after that there was going to be much more disruption," he said. He had expected software businesses to be more widely and directly impacted.

He is excited about AI's potential to boost small business creation. "We are about to see the greatest boom in people starting smaller businesses than we have ever seen… AI is empowering that," he said.

The CEO's comments come amid a broader debate over open-weight models. According to TechRadar, most major Chinese AI companies release open-weight models, while Anthropic has yet to release one. OpenAI has released two, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. The article asks whether people and small businesses will derive long-term advantage from OpenAI's liberty-based open models or stick with Anthropic's closed, safe models.