A 70-page, confidential initial charge of lying

According to1M AI NewsMonitoring, the Pulitzer Prize winner Ronan Farrow and New Yorker Andrew Marantz published a long investigative report, which revealed for the first time two core documents in their entirety, based on interviews with over 100 knowledgeable individuals: approximately 70 pages, compiled in autumn 2023 by the former chief scientist, OpenAI Ilya Sutskever, and over 200 pages of internal notes accumulated by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei during his tenure in OpenAI. Both documents have never been made public before。

Sutskever's secret file, which contains Slack news, HR documents and a screenshot from a mobile phone (allegedly to avoid company equipment monitoring), starts with a list: "Sam shows a consistent pattern..." and the first is "false". A secret allegation was made by Altman to distort the facts to the executive and the board of directors and to deceive his colleagues in the security process. Sutskever said to another director, "I don't think Sam is the one who should hold the button."

The Amodei note, entitled "My Experience in OpenAI" (subtitled "Personal Documents, Do Not Share"), circulated among Silicon Valley colleagues but never published, wrote that "OpenAI's problem is with Sam himself" and accused Altman of denying in person the existence of the contract when he entered into a $1 billion investment agreement with Microsoft, which was denied by Amodei after reading it verbatim。

The report also reveals a number of previously undisclosed facts:

The independent investigation promised by Altman after his reinstatement never resulted in a written report。The investigation firm Wilmer Hale (who had led the Enron and World Trade Organization investigation) reported only orally to the two new directors, and the decision not to produce a written report was based in part on the recommendations of their private lawyers. According to the source, the investigation was "seemingly intended to limit transparency" and some of the current directors felt that it might lead to a "re-investigation"

2. The real strength of the Super Alignment team is about 1 to 2 per cent of the 20 per cent public commitmentAnd most of them are distributed "on the oldest and poorest of the chips." When journalists asked to interview researchers working on sex security, OpenAI responded: "What do you mean by "safe sex"? That's not a thing."

3. A programme known internally as the National Plan was carefully discussed at senior management around 2018: Let large countries (including China and Russia) bid for AI technology. Jack Clark, then the policy manager, described his goal as "to create a prisoner's plight, so that all countries must give us money." The programme was put on hold owing to threats of resignation from multiple staff members。

4. Several Microsoft executives expressed strong dissatisfaction with Altman。One executive called "he distorts, distorts, renegotiates, breaks the deal" and said, "There's a small but real possibility that he'll eventually be remembered as if he remembers Bernie Madoff, the principal of the Ponzi scheme, or the founder of the FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried."

Altman was asked to admit his pattern of deception in a conversation with the board after his dismissal, and he repeatedly said, "This is ridiculous," and then, "I can't change my character". One of the members of the board said, "I have a character to lie to, and I will not stop." "You must understand that Sam can never be trusted." He's an antisocial personality. He can do anything. According to reports, more than one person actively uses the term "anti-social personality" in interviews。

Altman, in more than a dozen conversations with journalists, denied deliberate deception, characterized changing commitments as "good-faith adaptation" to a rapidly changing environment, and attributed early criticism to his tendency to "shun conflict too much". When asked whether the company operating AI had higher requirements for good faith, he added: "Yes, it requires a higher level of good faith, and I feel the weight of this responsibility every day."