“If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong, and we want to be vocal about that.”

Altman walked a tightrope: urging regulationGovernment rules governing technology — privacy, competition, safety, and export controls. that could entrench incumbents while presenting OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models. as the responsible actor. The line became the sound bite from the first major congressional hearing on generative AIModels that create new content — text, images, audio, or code — from learned patterns..

The defining quote from Congress's first ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users.-era AI hearing.

It mainstreamed AI risk talk in Washington months after ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users.'s launch.