OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was dragged through the mud in a new in-depth report that features former colleagues and current board members referring to him as sociopath and a liar.

Altman, 40, has yet to respond to claims made in a recent report, some of which were uncovered in secret memos to OpenAI’s board members.

‘He is a sociopath. He would do anything.’

According to the New Yorker, OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, sent the memos to three other board members in 2023. One of the memos about Altman began with a list titled “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of.” The first item on the list was “lying.”

The memos also alleged that Altman misrepresented facts to executives and board members while deceiving them about safety protocols. Unfortunately for Altman, the claims did not stop there.

“He’s unconstrained by truth,” a board member told the New Yorker. “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”

The outlet said that the unnamed board member was not the only person to describe Altman as “sociopathic” without being prompted. Not long before his 2013 suicide, according to the New Yorker, coder Aaron Swartz warned at least one friend about Altman, whom Swartz had known from their time together at Y Combinator. His warning: “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted. He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

Sutskever additionally implied that he did not think Altman should have power over others, saying, “I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button.”

Others described him as more ambitious than anything else.

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Former OpenAI board member Sue Yoon said Altman was “not this Machiavellian villain” but was able to convince himself of his own sales pitches.

“He’s too caught up in his own self-belief,” she reportedly said. “So he does things that, if you live in the real world, make no sense. But he doesn’t live in the real world.”

Other anonymous colleagues cited by the New Yorker said that Sutskever and similar detractors were simply aspiring to take Altman’s throne. Still, even many neutral comments did not help Altman’s portrayal in the report.

“He’s unbelievably persuasive. Like, Jedi mind tricks,” a tech executive colleague of Altman’s reportedly said. “He’s just next-level.”

At the same time, OpenAI is allegedly in the midst of unleashing superintelligence that Altman himself says will be so disruptive that it will require a new social contract.

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Altman told Axios that there would be widespread job loss and a threat of cyberattacks coupled with social unrest.

“I suspect in the next year,” he said, “we will see significant threats we have to mitigate from cyber.”

Altman proposed a new deal with citizens that includes a public wealth fund, taxes on “automated labor,” a 32-hour workweek, and the “right to AI.”

That confirms previous reports that Altman wanted to put AI on a meter like electricity or water, to both democratize its usage and limit the possibility of overburdening the electrical grid.

OpenAI did not respond to Return’s request for comment about the claims made about Altman and who they were coming from.

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The Artemis II crew made history on Monday, putting more distance — 252,756 miles — between themselves and Earth than any previous human spaceflight. The previous record, 248,655 miles, was set by Apollo 13 in 1970.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen looped around the moon in their Orion spacecraft, flying as close as 4,070 miles on one approach and losing signal for roughly 40 minutes while passing behind the celestial body.

‘We’ll establish a permanent presence.’

In addition to breaking the distance record for human spaceflight and making “impactful science observations” of the far side of the moon, NASA said the crew also took a moment to “provisionally name” a couple of lunar craters.

As the Artemis II crew began their voyage back to Earth, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman notified them that they had a call waiting.

“A very special hello to Artemis II,” said President Donald Trump. “Today, you’ve made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud. We have a lot of things to be proud of lately, but this is — there’s nothing like what you’re doing, circling around the moon for the first time in more than a half a century and breaking the all-time record for the farthest distance from Planet Earth.”

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Trump also informed Hansen that his countrymen are proud of him, stating, “I spoke to your prime minister and many other friends I have in Canada. They are so proud of you.”

Emphasizing that America is a “frontier nation” and that the Artemis II crew are “modern-day pioneers,” the president noted that while such journeys are rare, “It’s going to be more and more prevalent because we’re going to be doing a lot of … traveling, and then you’re going to ultimately do the whole big trip to Mars.”

Trump said that the Artemis II mission sets the stage for a return to the lunar surface “very soon,” adding that “this time, we won’t just leave footprints; we’ll establish a permanent presence on the moon.”

Commander Reid Wiseman, a Baltimore native, told Trump that his call was “certainly special to all of us.”

Wiseman noted that two unforgettable parts of their journey were watching a solar eclipse and glimpsing Mars: “All of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become a two-planet species.”

Koch said her top highlight was seeing Earth again after passing around the far side of the moon.

“It really just reminds you what a special place we have and how important it is for our nation … to lead and not follow in exploring deep space,” said Koch.

The president said he plans to invite the astronauts to the White House after their return and to ask them for their autographs.

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