Tech billionaire Sam Altman positions his company’s artificial intelligence, including ChatGPT, as humanity’s savior. But the human race can’t trust the OpenAI CEO, according to a recent New Yorker Sam Altman profile.

From his earliest days in the tech industry, Altman has toggled between exaggerations (at best) and lies (at worst) about AI’s world-changing potential. When his optimism turned apocalyptic, he argued that only he could be trusted with the technology.

“Maybe this was a premeditated masterstroke. Maybe he was fumbling for an advantage. Either way, it worked,” the New Yorker reported.

This week, Spitfire News independent journalist Kat Tenbarge returns to the pod for a deep dive

on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Katelyn, Christine, and Kat use The New Yorker Sam Altman profile as a springboard for a discussion on truthfulness and technology. As Altman lobbies against the safety measures he once supported—in name only, it seems—it’s time to question the narrative he’s built about himself and for us all.

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Links for Apple:

- Grab a discounted bundle subscription to Katelyn’s and Christine’s newsletters at their TrustFnd collab!

- Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz for The New Yorker: Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

- Oli Coleman for Page Six: Jeremy O. Harris drunkenly called OpenAI’s Sam Altman a Nazi at the Vanity Fair Oscar party

- Buy Karen Hao’s Empire of AI at The Flytrap Media Bookshop

- Eddy Burback for YouTube: ChatGPT made me delusional

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Sam Altman and the Lie of OpenAI (ft. Kat Tenbarge)