Tucker Carlson wanted to see the “angst-filled” Sam Altman: He wanted to hear him admit he was tormented by the power he holds. After about half an hour of couching his fears with technical language and cautious caveats, the OpenAI CEO finally did.

“I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since ChatGPT launched,” Altman told Carlson. He laughed wryly.

In his wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson, the OpenAI CEO described the weight of overseeing a technology that hundreds of millions of people now use daily. It’s less about the Terminator-esque scenarios or rogue robots. Rather, for Altman, it’s the ordinary, almost invisible tweaks and trade-offs his team makes every day. It’s when the model refuses a question, how it frames an answer, when it decides to push back, and when it lets

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