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Seventy pages of internal memos sent via disappearing messages described Sam Altman as a 'pathological liar.' Dario Amodei's private notes: 'The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself.' Confirmed by New Yorker investigation.
“Seventy pages of internal memos sent via disappearing messages described Sam Altman as a 'pathological liar.' Dario Amodei's private notes: 'The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself.' Confirmed by New Yorker investigation.”
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist until his 2024 departure, sent approximately 70 pages of internal memos describing CEO Sam Altman as a "pathological liar." The messages were transmitted via disappearing-message apps — a choice that suggests deliberate concealment.
The memos were surfaced as part of a New Yorker investigation by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz, published April 2026. Separately, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — himself a former OpenAI VP who left in 2020 — wrote in private notes: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself." Amodei had direct executive visibility into Altman's leadership before founding Anthropic.
This is not anonymous hearsay. These are contemporaneous, written assessments from two of the most technically credible figures in AI — men who built the systems that made OpenAI a $300B company. Sutskever's use of disappearing messages to transmit concerns about his own CEO implies he believed internal channels were monitored or useless. The November 2023 board firing of Altman, subsequently reversed under investor pressure, now has a documented paper trail behind it.
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