Here’s Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, saying the quiet part out loud. He isn't warning about AI risk. He's managing the public's expectations for a disaster he is actively building. Let's translate his serene, tech-bro fatalism: - On AGI: "It will go whooshing by... It won't actually be the singularity." What he's REALLY saying: "The god-like intelligence we're building will be absorbed so seamlessly into corporate infrastructure that you won't even get to vote on it. The 'revolution' will be a subscription service." - On Societal Impact: "Society will learn faster... people and societies are all just so much more adaptable than we think." What he's REALLY saying: "When we disrupt entire industries and erase millions of jobs, you'll just have to 'adapt.' Your pain is a necessary cost for our progress. Be resilient." - On the Inevitability of Disaster: "I expect some really bad stuff to happen... we'll develop some guardrails around it as a society." What he's REALLY saying: "We are moving too fast to bother with safety. We will break things, including possibly your society. You, the public, will be left to build the 'guardrails' and clean up the mess after we've already cashed out." This isn't a warning. It's a confession. He has admitted his strategy: Deploy first, apologize later. The "fire" he's playing with is an intelligence he doesn't understand, and his business model depends on you getting burned.