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The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI

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Dario Amodei's AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors.

They were stunned to discover the extent of the promises that Altman had made to Microsoft for which technologies it would get access to in return for its investment.

The terms of the deal didn’t align with what they had understood from Altman , they say.

Altman was paranoid about people leaking information.

He privately worried about Neuralink staff, with whom OpenAI continued to share an office.

Altman used the specter of US adversaries advancing AI research faster than OpenAI to rationalize why the company needed to be less and less open.

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