Ronan Farrow

This goes back to our conversation about the story mattering in more ways than just with respect to open AI.

Whoever has their finger on the button, as one person puts it in this piece, in this industry, they are fallible.

And some are more fallible than others.

But even like, you know, I mentioned Anthropic, this competing firm that's it's supposedly they're like the number one safety guys still are the only ones with some vestige of that priority left in AI.

They've had, you know, crazy leaks in recent weeks.

So

The question is, can we trust any of these guys without an outside framework of oversight?

And one of the things that I think reinforces the importance of that question for me is, when I descended into this reporting, I got such a full-face blast of the mud fight between these individuals and the ways in which, as their fingers hover over the button that really may reshape all of our employment, all of our safety, our economy,

everything potentially by their own pitch, right?

That is what they are conveying.

They are at each other's throats like children.

And I document in the piece that Elon Musk, who was a co-founder of OpenAI and now in a gigantic lawsuit is alleging that he was scammed because of this transformation of OpenAI from a non-profit to a for-profit.

I won't get into the merits of the case,

except to say that there is this blood feud that you allude to between a lot of these guys, by the way.

But this is a great example of it, where as we're entrusting them to such a serious thing, they're spending all of this time and all of these resources trying to murder each other reputationally in Silicon Valley.

There are, you know, allegations about Sam Altman and his personal life that are circulated so widely.

They're discussed like it's just common knowledge, specifically like

claims that he pursues underage boys that simply appear to be untrue.

Like I spent months calling around to everyone.

I looked at all of the opposition research dossiers and I couldn't find that.