Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

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A New Yorker investigation reveals that OpenAI board members secretly documented a pattern of lying by Sam Altman, leading to his brief ouster in 2023 due to concerns he could not be trusted with superintelligent AI.

Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth
Ronan Farrow reports that Sam Altman's pattern of telling different groups conflicting things is an increasingly acknowledged concern among investors and colleagues.
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Tatiana Schlossberg Submitted a Heartbreaking Essay to The New Yorker on Her Cancer Diagnosis, Fully Formed - The New York Times
Tatiana Schlossberg submitted an unsolicited essay on her cancer diagnosis to The New Yorker, which accepted and barely edited it.
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Sam Altman’s Side Hustles Blur the Line Between OpenAI’s Interests and His Own - WSJ
Sam Altman's personal investments in Helion and Stoke Space create potential conflicts with OpenAI's interests ahead of its planned IPO.
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It's Hard to Feel the AGI
Leading AI researchers argue that current LLM scaling will hit a ceiling, requiring new insights before AGI emerges, pushing timelines back 5-20 years.
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Technological Involution
Technological progress has stagnated as society lost its ability to imagine novel frontiers and founders now chase institutionalized narratives rather than deep personal conviction in technology.
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