Karen Hao

did I misunderstand what journalism is about?

Should I have actually been playing the access game?

But it was too late.

I had the door shut to me.

And so I had to build my career understanding that the front door was never going to be open.

And that actually really strengthened my own ability to just tell it like it is.

Yeah.

And just report what I see are the facts being presented to me, irrespective of whether the company likes it or not.

And most often, the company really does not like it.

But...

I can continue to do the work.

They don't need to open the front door for me.

I was still able to do more than 300 interviews.

Yeah.

There's a scene-by-scene recounting.

I can't remember the exact number of sources, so I don't want to misquote myself, but it was around six or seven people that were directly involved or had spoken to people directly involved in the decision-making process.

So, Ilya Satskever...

is seeing these serious concerns about the way that Altman's behavior is leading to bad research outcomes and poor decision-making at the company.

He then approaches a board member, Helen Toner.

Yes.