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340 Omissions, Deceptions, Lying. The New Yorker Asks: Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 04/11/2026 15:34 EDT

Omissions, Deceptions, Lying. The New Yorker Asks: Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?

A 17,000-word expose in the New Yorker reveals "several executives connected to OpenAI have expressed ongoing reservations about Altman's leadership." Reporters Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spoke to "a hundred people with firsthand knowledge of how Altman conducts business," including current and former OpenAI employees and board members.

Among other revelations, internal messages from a few years ago show that OpenAI executives and board members "had come to believe that Altman's omissions and decepti

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