Sam Altman Is ‘Optimistic’ He Can Get the AI Laws He Wants Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, is wrapping up a jet-setting tour of meetings with world leaders in an effort to steer global AI regulation. Altman and his company want lawmakers thinking more about a potential future where AI destroys society, and less about not the problems AI will wreak in the short term. At a talk with students in Tokyo Monday, Altman said he thinks the strategy is working. “One of the reasons for this trip was to get to talk to leaders around the…