(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.
OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?
A thread on some of of our findings:
@sama I have so much gratitude for OpenAI’s lying founder/ceo. It already feels difficult to remember how ethical and transparent other founder/ceo’s were.
Thank you for getting us to this point.
Such a relief to have Sam Altman's promise that he'd never facilitate mass surveillance. He has an incredible track record of keeping his promises, so we should all feel really good about this.