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🔥 This whistleblower in the field of artificial intelligence has just revealed how Sam Altman manipulated his way to become the CEO of OpenAI.

All the people who helped him create OpenAI have left, because they felt they were used.

Karen Hao interviewed 300 people, including 90 current and former OpenAI employees.

She just told Steven Bartlett about her findings:

In 2015, Altman needed Elon Musk to co-found OpenAI. The problem was, Musk was deeply afraid of AI at that time, believing it posed an existential threat to humanity.

So, Altman wrote a blog post calling AI "potentially the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity."

Before that blog post? Altman's greatest fear was man-made viruses, not AI.

He completely changed his worldview overnight to align perfectly with Musk's rhetoric. Musk accepted his theory, donated millions of dollars, and co-founded the company.

Then, Altman betrayed him.

When OpenAI needed a CEO for its newly formed for-profit arm, co-founders Ilia Sutskever and Greg Brockman initially chose Musk.

Altman went directly to his private friend Brockman and asked, "Do we really want a person this volatile and unpredictable to be in charge of a technology that could be this powerful?"

Brockman changed his mind and convinced Ilia to change his mind too.

Musk found out he didn't get the position and left.

That's how the biggest rivalry in tech started. Not from an ideological battle... but from a behind-the-scenes power struggle.

But it goes much further than that:

All the people who co-founded OpenAI with Altman eventually felt what Musk felt: used, manipulated, and discarded.

Research VP Dario Amodei thought Altman was aligned with him. But over time, he realized Altman's thinking was "completely opposite" and that Altman was using his intellect to develop products he fundamentally disagreed with. He left OpenAI and founded Anthropic.

Co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever tried to get Altman fired. He told colleagues, "I don't think Sam is the person to be in charge of the AGI button." He was pushed out of the company and founded Safe Super Intelligence. The name alone says it all.

CTO Mira Murati left the company to start Thinking Machines Lab.

No tech company in history has had all its co-founders leave and found direct competitors.

Not Google, not Meta, not Apple. No company.

300 interviews revealed a consistent pattern:

If you buy into Altman's vision, you think he's the Steve Jobs of AI. If you don't, you feel manipulated by someone who says whatever his audience wants to hear.

Testifying before Congress? AGI will cure cancer and end poverty.

Testifying before consumers? It's the best digital assistant you've ever used.

Testifying before Microsoft? AGI is a $100 billion-a-year system.

The same technology, but given three completely different definitions and sold to three completely different audiences.

What if you publicly oppose any of them?

OpenAI sent subpoenas to 7 nonprofits that criticized them. They even sent a sheriff to a 29-year-old nonprofit lawyer's house at dinnertime, demanding he hand over all texts, emails, and documents related to OpenAI.

A nonprofit that was overseeing the company alone also received documents demanding its communications with everyone who questioned the company.

OpenAI's head of mission alignment said publicly "this doesn't look good." And this person's job is to ensure OpenAI benefits humanity.

Some former employees who publicly exposed the company's secret "non-disparagement" clauses, which threatened to strip their equity, described the psychological pressure as "crushing."

This company claims it's developing technology "to benefit humanity."

This company will use whatever wording gets them funding.

This company ends up making all its partners feel cheated.

This company even uses law enforcement to silence critics.

The largest AI company on Earth is not built on technology.

It's built on one man's ability to tell everyone exactly what they want to hear.

And the scariest part is, it's working.