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Scam Altman has a incredible track record for being a con artist I don't think anyone has a "former ally turned enemy" list this big with directly with people he worked with
A massive new 18-month investigation dropped, revealing the full list of people who worked directly with Sam Altman and now openly say they don’t trust him - they call him a liar, manipulator, scam artist, and worse
These are his co-founders, board members, top executives, and biggest partners. Not random haters:
• Elon Musk (OpenAI co-founder)
➝ Betrayed the original nonprofit, open & safe AI mission and turned it into a closed profit machine
What he says: Calls him "Scam Altman" and “Sam Altman lies as easily as he breathes”
• Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI co-founder & former Chief Scientist)
Why: Discovered Sam repeatedly lied about safety protocols and bypassed board oversight. What he says/did: Compiled 70+ pages of memos, Slack messages, and evidence proving Sam’s lies → helped fire him. Said he didn’t think “Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button for AGI”
• Dario Amodei (former OpenAI President, now Anthropic CEO)
Why: Left because of Sam’s leadership and broken safety promises
What he says: “The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself.” Called the company under Sam "mendacious” (full of lies) and compared it to Big Tobacco knowingly selling something dangerous. Accused him of a clear “pattern of behavior”
• Helen Toner (former OpenAI Board Member)
Why: Sam made it impossible for the board to do its job through constant deception
What she says: He was “outright lying to the board” and created a “toxic atmosphere” of psychological pressure
• Tasha McCauley (former OpenAI Board Member)
Why: Complete loss of trust after years of the same behavior
What she says: Senior leaders reported Sam cultivated a “toxic culture of lying”
• Jan Leike (former Superalignment co-lead)
Why: Sam deprioritized real safety work for shiny products
What he says: Resigned publicly saying he “lost confidence” in OpenAI leadership and that the company was “losing its way” on alignment
• Mira Murati (former CTO - one of Sam’s closest longtime collaborators)
Why: Lost all confidence in his leadership as they approached AGI
What she says: Told insiders “I don’t feel comfortable about Sam leading us to AGI” and said his playbook is to say whatever he needs to get what he wants, and if that fails, destroy your credibility
• Microsoft executives (including major tensions with CEO Satya Nadella)
Why: Felt constantly misled on deals and partnerships
What they say: A senior exec warned he could be remembered as a “Bernie Madoff or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer”
• Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder - Sam was YC President)
Why: Long pattern of deception during his time running YC
What he says: Privately told YC colleagues, “Sam had been lying to us all the time"
• Loopt board & early employees (Sam’s first startup)
Why: History of chaotic and deceptive behavior
What they did: Employees went to the board twice trying to get him fired over lack of honesty and shady behavior
These are his co-founders, board members, closest executives, and major partners who actually worked with him all say the exact same things - chronic lying, manipulation, broken trust, toxic culture, scam & deception
