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Today I read a couple of book reviews in the Economist with Sam Altman as the subject. The books are :

The Optimist. By Keach Hagey Empire of AI. By Karen Hao

The reviews are positive for both books. The column itself is titled "Sam Altman is a visionary with a trustworthiness problem" and shows a few reasons people have had some problems with his behaviour. One quote from the article is :

"Ms Livingston fired him, but as Ms Hagey recounts, he left chaos in his wake. Not only was he overseen by a non-functioning board, he had also used YC equity to help lure people to OpenAI. She says some YC partners saw a potential conflict of interest, “or at least an unseemly leveraging of the YC brand for Altman’s personal projects”."

Sam Altman is a visionary with a trustworthiness problem https://archive.is/oANfs

"Two books tell a similar tale about OpenAI. It is worrying"



Sounds a little like Holmes.


Holmes never showed anything.


Well she showed lies.




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