OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he worries that AI will one day be controlled by a handful of companies, models, or people, leaving the vast majority of consumers without a say in how the technology shapes the world.

“The right approach is to say we want people deeply in control of the future,” Altman said on David Senra’s podcast, which was released on Sunday. “Society and the models are going to co-evolve.”

The other possibility Altman said he worries about is AI breaking free from its human handlers. Paradoxically, Altman said a fear of the latter possibility could lead to an actualization of the former.

“There are a lot of people who are so…