At the moment, a few people directly impacted by AI are voicing their discontent.
But when AI is truly deployed on a massive scale and creates mass unemployment and destroy society - which will happen, and sooner rather than later, make no doubt about it - the booing will turn into rioting, and those OpenAI exec had better hide because their lives will be in danger.
As for "Be one of those people who leverages AI, don't be run over by it", that's beyond insulting and patronizing: how many truck drivers, accountants or primary school teachers will be able transition and master the fine art of getting an AI to produce anything other than mediocre garbage, assuming they're even needed at all for that task?
It's blindingly obvious that for every job AI creates, AI will destroy 100. It's always been like that when technology displaces jobs that become redundant. The difference with previous game-changing technologies is that this one will not impact just one industry: it will impact the whole of society at once. And society will not accept it idly and peacefully.
I wouldn't want to be in Sam Altmann's shoes when the shit hits the fan. That man will have to hide harder than Salman Rushdie for the rest of his life.