Every day a new scientific breakthrough or existential threat seems to make the world more aware and more distrusting of an AI future that we’re told is rapidly approaching—whether we like it or not.Click here for Part 1 of Vanity Fair’s Sam Altman interview.Nobody is more recognized as the face of artificial intelligence—as a technology, an industry, and a civilizational shift—than OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman, who appears at the top of our 2026 New Establishment list. (You can read the ...