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18-month investigation by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz, based on never-before-disclosed internal memos, 200+ pages of a co-founder’s private notes, and interviews with more than 100 people. A few of the new revelations: in OpenAI’s early years, executives discussed playing world powers — including China and Russia — against each other in a bidding war for AI technology, with the company’s own policy adviser asking “what if we sold it to Putin?” After Altman was reinstated in 2023, the firm behind the Enron and WorldCom investigations was hired to review the allegations against him — but people involved say no written report was ever produced, and findings were limited to oral briefings shared with two new board members selected after close conversations with Altman himself. And when reporters asked to interview OpenAI researchers working on existential safety, a company representative replied: “What do you mean by ‘existential safety’? That’s not, like, a thing.” submitted by /u/Playful-Bonus2268

Originally posted by u/Playful-Bonus2268 on r/ArtificialInteligence