According to 1M AI News, Pulitzer Prize winner Ronan Farrow and The New Yorker reporter Andrew Marantz published a lengthy investigative report that, based on interviews with over 100 insiders, fully discloses for the first time two core documents: a roughly 70-page confidential document compiled by OpenAI's former Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever in the fall of 2023, and over 200 pages of internal notes accumulated by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei during his time at OpenAI. Both documents have never been made public before.

The Sutskever document includes Slack messages, HR files, and screenshots taken with a phone (reportedly to avoid monitoring by company devices), starting with a list: "Sam presents a persistent pattern…", the first item being "lying." The document accuses Altman of distorting facts to executives and the board and deceiving colleagues on safety processes. Sutskever said to another board member at the time: "I don’t think Sam is the person who should hold the button."

Amodei's notes are titled "My Experience at OpenAI" (subtitle "Private Document, Do Not Share"), circulated among peers in Silicon Valley but never publicly released, stating "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself," and accusing Altman of denying existing terms in a $1 billion investment agreement with Microsoft even after Amodei read the text aloud verbatim.

The report also reveals several previously undisclosed facts:

1. The independent investigation promised after Altman's reinstatement never resulted in a written report. The law firm WilmerHale (which previously led investigations into Enron and WorldCom) reported orally to two new directors, and the decision not to produce a written report was partly based on the advice of these directors' personal lawyers. Insiders say the investigation "seemed designed to limit transparency," and some current directors believe this matter may lead to "the need for a re-investigation."

2. The actual computing power obtained by the Super Alignment team is about 1%-2% of the publicly promised 20%, with most allocated on "the oldest, worst chip clusters." When reporters requested interviews with researchers working on existential safety, an OpenAI representative replied: "What do you mean by 'existential safety'? That’s not a thing."

3. There was serious discussion among executives around 2018 about an internally referred to plan called "National Plan": allowing major countries (including China and Russia) to bid for AI technology. Former policy chief Jack Clark described the goal as "to create a prisoner’s dilemma that forced all countries to fund us." The plan was shelved due to threats of resignation from multiple employees.

4. Multiple Microsoft executives expressed strong dissatisfaction with Altman. One executive claimed, "He distorts, twists, renegotiates, violates agreements," believing "there is a small but real possibility that he will ultimately be remembered like Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff or FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried."

After Altman was fired, during a call with the board, he was asked to acknowledge his pattern of deception; he repeatedly said "this is ridiculous," then stated, "I can’t change my character." One attending board member interpreted this as: "What that means is 'I have a tendency to lie to people, and I will not stop.'" Aaron Swartz, a Y Combinator graduate who passed away in 2013, once warned a friend: "You have to understand that Sam can never be trusted. He is a sociopath and will do anything." The report states that more than one person proactively used the term "sociopath" during interviews.

In over a dozen conversations with reporters, Altman denied intentional deception, characterizing the evolving commitments as "good-faith adaptations" to a rapidly changing environment, and attributed early criticisms to his tendency to "avoid conflict." When asked whether running an AI company requires a higher standard of integrity, he added, "Yes, it requires a higher level of integrity, and I feel the weight of this responsibility every day."

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