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Um. Did they mean to say that out loud? So we now all agree that safety wasn't a "central priority"? Wow.
Personal update: Turns out that what I thought was leaving OpenAI became more of a sabbatical.
When I left a few months ago, I felt that the most important thing to focus on was making AI more useful to people. But we’ve since entered a different regime of AI progress. One in which getting the safety and security challenges of increasingly capable AI right has to become a central priority.
So I’ll be returning to OpenAI, joining @merettm to help chart a path through these challenges.
There’s much work to do, so let’s get going.
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Looking forward to being on. Spoiler alert: the AI companies knew they were putting out dangerous products for years.
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One of the most impactful stories/videos about how chatgpt can help plan mass casuality events. Great reporting by @markfollman
motherjones.com/media/2026/0… via @MotherJones
As billionaires fight over corporate structure in the Musk v OpenAI trial,
we are seeing first hand how dangerous the technology they created is. Humbled and honored to be representing the victims of the Tumbler Ridge school shooting - a massacre that would never had happened if OAI leadership had not overruled its safety team's pleas to alert the authorities. My interview on NBC is nbcnews.com/video/lawyer-of-…
In other news, Lex Luthor has put out a press statement explaining how much effort he has spent ridding the world of kryptonite. It's one of his top priorities.
OpenAI's lawyer asks if Elon knows what OpenAI is doing internally to ensure AI safety. He asks if Musk knows anything about OpenAI's commitment to safety in its agreement with Microsoft. He suggests that contrary to Musk's claim that OpenAI is failing to steward AI safety, Elon just doesn't know how OpenAI is committed to safety.
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I've never seen such a disconnected group of people.
OpenAI’s global policy chief, Chris Lehane, thinks the discussion around AI has gotten out of hand. "When you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences.”
📝: @ceodonovan sfstandard.com/2026/04/15/op…
This week, Sam Altman asked the world for sympathy over threats to his home. At the same moment, his lawyers were in court arguing that OpenAI had no obligation to stop a dangerous stalker from terrorizing our client; a man previously arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and a bomb threat, found mentally incompetent by a court, and released last week on a technicality.
Even though OpenAI's own systems had flagged his conversations for "mass casualty" activity, the company argued it wouldn't shut down his accounts while authorities searched for him. It also argued that the chatlogs, which could identify who else is in danger and how he may be planning to act, should not be turned over.
OpenAI made these arguments in the wake of Tumbler Ridge, FSU, and Soelberg, three tragedies now linked to ChatGPT-assisted murder.
Today, a court disagreed. The chatlogs will be turned over and he will be kept off the platform.
We are thankful for the court's ruling and remain stunned by OpenAI's lack of human decency. No one should have to go to court to get a company to take "mass casualty" seriously.
sfstandard.com/2026/04/13/wo…
OpenAI flagged our client’s stalker for mass-casualty weapons activity. A human overrode it. He was later arrested for bomb threats and assault. He could be released any day. OpenAI is refusing to share what they know to keep her and other potential victims safe.
After Soelberg, Tumbler Ridge and FSU, it's become clear that Sama and OAI should not be entrusted to control some of the most powerful consumer tech known to humanity.
techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/st…
Appreciate @AGJamesUthmeier leadership. AGs across the country have the ability to investigate, demand answers and hold AI companies accountable when their products kill people.
Reasonable people can have different opinions on the social media verdicts. I don't think that's true with respect to the "arguments" made in this Substack. @TaylorLorenz - the standard of evidence isn't "lower" in civil cases, nor does it come down to "feels". (continued below)
“As for social media ‘addiction’ there literally is no such thing. No diagnosis for that. Social media is not remotely the same as alcohol, nicotine, or heroin. There is no such thing as ‘dopamine hits’ which is merely pseudo-science sounding garnish on a load of served-up crap” grimoiremanor.substack.com/p…
When is the Afroman movie coming out? And should it be a documentary or a feature film? Final question: how is the world supposed to do anything else but focus on what happened during the trial and the events leading up to it?
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Yep. This all feels reasonable.
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
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Elon: Sam, your product is inducing psychotic episodes, including one that led to the murder of an 83-year-old woman.
Sam: Not fair. I stayed quiet when you released self-driving technology too early and killed over 50 people.
Sometimes you complain about ChatGPT being too restrictive, and then in cases like this you claim it's too relaxed. Almost a billion people use it and some of them may be in very fragile mental states. We will continue to do our best to get this right and we feel huge responsibility to do the best we can, but these are tragic and complicated situations that deserve to be treated with respect.
It is genuinely hard; we need to protect vulnerable users, while also making sure our guardrails still allow all of our users to benefit from our tools.
Apparently more than 50 people have died from crashes related to Autopilot. I only ever rode in a car using it once, some time ago, but my first thought was that it was far from a safe thing for Tesla to have released. I won't even start on some of the Grok decisions.
You take "every accusation is a confession" so far.
Proud to be representing Suzanne's estate. After reviewing countless chat logs, we know that this is not an isolated incident. AI can take mentally unstable people and create conspiracy-filled "worlds" leading to violence against third parties. We have seen AI help plan mass casualty events, put targets on the backs of public figures, police officers, and every day people. In a time when tensions are already high, AI companies cannot be putting out products that are certain to push people over the edge.
OpenAI is being sued for wrongful death by the estate of a woman killed by her son, who had been engaging in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4iXosiQ
@HawleyMO - the Rains appreciate your leadership.
Now American AI bots are “coaching” kids on how to commit suicide. Unforgivable.
Hey @OpenAI - time to compensate the parents of the 16-year-old who took his life at your tech’s behest reuters.com/sustainability/b…
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