I don’t think exploiting lax regulation, ineffective law enforcement, and financial hardship to scoop up biometric data for cheap has anything to do with “savior”.

They tend to justify it, both themselves and to the world, by claiming the product is here lift people in the global south out of poverty and bring them into the modern world. That's textbook white saviorism.

That's how they handwave away the fact that their actual goal is exploiting lax regulation, ineffective law enforcement, and financial hardship to scoop up biometric data for cheap.

That's just standard techbro ops 101.

if altman continues to fall upwards he'll end up going "full elon"

Makes him very easy to manipulate, sadly.

Is it "white savior complex" or is it a belief in laissez faire capitalist ideas ?

I think 'Tony Stark complex' would be more appropriate. Feels like these people watched Ironman 2 and imagine themselves in Tony's shoes as he address congress.

No such thing as white savior complex. White savior complex is mislabeled white exploitation complex. Nobody is a saint. Everyone acts in accordance to their own selfish interests. Even white people. Altman is doing this not to save or benefit kenyans but for his own selfish interests.