
Peter Kafka / Business Insider: OpenAI's ambitions are easy to see. So are the doubts about its CEO. (2/11) In the fall of 2023, OpenAI's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, acting at the behest of fellow board members and with other concerned colleagues, compiled some 70 pages of memos about Altman and his second-in-command, Greg Brockman -- Slack messages and H.R. documents, some photographed on a cellphone to avoid detection on company devices. One memo begins with a list: "Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of..." The first item is "Lying." Separately, Dario Amodei -- who left to co-found Anthropic -- kept years of private notes on Altman and Brockman. More than 200 pages of related documents, never before publicly disclosed, have circulated in Silicon Valley. In one document, Amodei writes that Altman's "words were almost certainly bullshit."