Jeff Goldblum Warned Us About Sam Altman in 1993

“What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.”
— Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park (1993)

In Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum’s chaos theorist, Dr. Ian Malcolm, wasn’t just the sardonic comic relief—he was the film’s conscience. A walking, stammering, black-clad warning label for humanity’s hubris. He stood in the middle of a billionaire’s science-fantasy amusement park and basically said: this will end in blood.

And it did.

Swap out cloned dinosaurs for artificial general intelligence. Swap John Hammond’s mosquito-in-amber for Sam Altman’s silicon-in-a-data-center. The shape of the story doesn’t change. The only difference? This time, we’re the park.

Altman speaks the language of safety—“alignment,” “cooperation,” “coordination”—but the moves tell a different story. Scaling models faster than the ecosystem can absorb. Shuttering the nonprofit transparency that OpenAI was founded on. Evading regulatory clarity like a raptor testing the fences.

It’s not that Altman is a villain. He’s not Lex Luthor; he’s more like Hammond, but with fewer illusions about wonder and more faith in optimization. The problem is the belief that wisdom will emerge as a byproduct of progress. That ethics will scale with compute. That the future can be aligned later.

“Discovery is a violent, penetrative act,” Malcolm said. It scars what it touches.

AI may not draw blood (yet), but it’s already gouging social trust, warping public discourse, and rewriting the labor contract. These are early tremors. And just like Jurassic Park, the infrastructure looks impressive—until it doesn’t. Until the storm hits. Until something breeds, leaks, evolves.

Altman once said, “The most responsible way to build AGI is to do it fast.” Malcolm would call that line horseshit dressed as confidence. Because speed isn’t responsibility. It’s velocity without vector.

And the park always breaks down.