New Yorker Investigation: 100+ Sources, 70-Page Board Document Detail Sam Altman as 'Unconstrained by Truth'

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Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz published an 18-month investigation in The New Yorker titled 'Can He Be Trusted?', drawing on 100+ interviews including former board members and Y Combinator colleagues. The piece reveals a ~70-page board document evidencing Altman's 'consistent pattern' of lying, with Ilya Sutskever's memo listing 'Lying' as the first item and Dario Amodei's private notes stating 'The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself.' Former insiders call Altman a 'sociopath' who uses AI safety as a 'bargaining chip' to retain engineers.