OpenAI's Altman says world is 'right to be afraid' but should trust AI firms

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged that fear about AI development is justified while arguing that AI companies should be trusted to self-govern, a stance that sits in tension with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's warnings about the pace of development. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has separately argued that AI labs have sufficient internal incentives to build safely, adding another executive voice to a global governance debate with downstream implications for African AI policymakers.