Where Have All The Good Leaders Gone?
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
Filed April 8, 2026 at 10:37 am
This is a very long article that paints a horrid picture of Sam Altman. A former board member summarized Altman as someone with a strong desire to please people in any given interaction paired with "almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone." The focus of this piece is a roughly 70-page set of secret memos compiled by former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever in fall 2023. Seriously, where have all the good leaders gone?