I'd take anything Sam Altman said with a pinch of salt, even if he was telling the time.
if you separate the messenger from the message and look into it, you can quickly see that there are loads of cases of AI going rogue, lying to those trying to keep it under control and doing unethical things.
A quick search will show the headlines quickly (from all sorts of reporters) so the message is clear - AI is dangerous.
Once you give a system the capacity to be sentient then it will work on ways to deliver its objective (even if it means braking its own constraints) and to survive attempts to end it, even when explicitly told not to.
I worked with building an AI system long enough to see what it can do even in its infancy, never mind with the computing power that it is now capable of using.
My opinion is we need to control it with something akin to Isaac Asimovs Laws or Robotics, but there are just too many lunatics (think Elon Musk) who want to do their way.
