Think of society as a pressure cooker and Sam Altman, OpenAI etc. as the oven's fire.

There's now just three possible futures:

- the fire is extinguished, aka the AI actors go bust. Nothing bad happens. Well, a bunch of rich people will be less rich, but society as a whole will be somewhat all right.

- the relief valve (society passing laws) is activated, pressure escapes.

- there is no pressure relief. Eventually, the pressure cooker bursts, aka revolution.