Sam Altman still isn’t ready for his close-up.

He is trying to appeal to governments and Corporate America how powerful AI is and, in the process, has scared the little people right out of their gourds.

But he reeks of someone who seems propped up by other people.

It is more than obvious he not only doesn’t get code and basic machine learning concepts, he doesn’t understand how the press works, how the press works, and how people work.

You don’t gather everyone in a crowd room and then shout, Fire!

And then wonder why there is a stampede taking off and not listening to you.

And if you don’t understand your product, then sooner or later, people who do and work for you get ideas.

They can pass things right under your nose because why should they prop you up? People higher, and older, up the food chain are already doing that because you are not putting people at ease with your new technology, but old school mental scaffolding.

CEOs who need training wheels don’t represent the future. They barely can handle the present.

He appeals to journalists, who are old school by cognitive scaffolding. That’s the main reason they write about him, because they don’t understand the tech.

But getting publicity and being of consequence are two very different things.

When someone in AI gets press attention, it is because a mentor, but mostly daddy or grandpa, have connections and hook you up or let’s you borrow their PR firm and/or publicist. You’ll be interviewed in some legacy media outlet, touted as the Next Big Thing, and then deflate on cue when the training wheels come off.

Legacy media attention in 2026 isn’t a big whoop and it’s no harbinger or omen to your future.

It just means old school media machine connected and landed. It doesn’t mean that when you land that you won’t fall flat on your face.

Or faceplant in a cow flap.