Things aren’t as rosy as they wereFive years ago, hardly anyone had heard of Sam Altman. But by the time I ran into him, in May of 2023 in Washington, at the US Senate, he had become a superstar. Senators called him by his first name, and flaunted the meetings they had with him. Prime Ministers welcomed him with open arms. Newspapers wrote glowing profiles, many with scarcely a critical word. Tech leaders loved him, too. Microsoft had already at that point put in billions soon after ChatGPT was ...