"Perhaps most strikingly, Murati reportedly told lawyers during her deposition that Altman once incorrectly told her that OpenAI's legal team had cleared a new AI model to bypass an internal safety board tasked with reviewing new models before release. Asked whether she believed Altman "was telling the truth when he made that statement" to Murati, the former CTO hit back with a simple: "no.""
"In other words: under oath, the former CTO - and briefly interim CEO - of the company behind the world's most popular chatbot, ChatGPT, said that OpenAI's still-reigning head exec falsely told her that lawyers had greenlit the company to leapfrog over certain safety protocols when, to the then-CTO's understanding, that wasn't true. Yikes!"
"counsel: "by fall of 2023 did you percieve altman was not candid with you? truthful? honest?" murati: (very long pause) "not always" counsel: did he undermine you as CTO?Murati: yes.counsel: did he pit other execs against one another? murati: yes."
Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO and current CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, gave a video deposition under threat of perjury. She testified that Sam Altman was not always candid with her and that he undermined her as CTO. She also said he pitted other executives against one another. Murati reported that Altman told her that OpenAI’s legal team had cleared a new AI model to bypass an internal safety board that reviewed models before release. When asked whether she believed Altman was telling the truth about that statement, she responded “no.” The testimony occurred in a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk against Altman and OpenAI regarding alleged betrayal of the nonprofit founding after the company became for-profit.
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