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keachhagey.bsky.social @keachhagey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The parents of Adam Raine, the 16-year-old who hanged himself after months of talking about suicide to ChatGPT, have filed an amended complaint that alleges OpenAI twice loosened its rules for discussing suicide before his death. Scoop w/ the great Sam Schechner www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

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keachhagey.bsky.social @keachhagey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Excited that Amazon has named THE OPTIMIST the #3 best business and leadership book of 2025 so far: www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...

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keachhagey.bsky.social @keachhagey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Thanks, @richardwaters.bsky.social for the great review of THE OPTIMIST in the Financial Times! “Timely and myth-busting” — Richard Waters, Financial Times www.ft.com/content/1721...

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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The quasi-religious cult in Silicon Valley attempting to produce a super intelligent AI of course has ties to the techno-fascist billionaire Peter Thiel. This article shares a must read excerpt from The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future, by @keachhagey.bsky.social.

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How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. An excerpt from "The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future."

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keachhagey.bsky.social @keachhagey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thanks, @caseynewton.bsky.social and @kevinroose.bsky.social, for a great conversation about the real reasons behind OpenAI’s blip and my new book about Sam Altman: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/p...

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keachhagey.bsky.social @keachhagey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

In its starred review, Publishers Weekly calls The OPTIMIST a “fleet-footed biography” full of “crackerjack reporting.” “The first major biography of tech’s newest titan, this sets a high bar for those to follow.” www.publishersweekly.com/9781324075967

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keachhagey.bsky.social @keachhagey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“Hagey's account suggests that [the old OpenAI board’s] reasons were much better than we knew at the time. And the world today might look very different had someone said so when it mattered.” — @caseynewton.bsky.social on the excerpt from my Sam Altman biography, THE OPTIMIST bit.ly/4l9FISm

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

An excerpt from @keachhagey.bsky.social's new book on Sam Altman explains in the greatest detail yet why the board fired him in 2023 — and raises the question of what would have happened if the board had told us all this at the time www.platformer.news/we-finally-k...

nowing what we know now, we know the board might have said: Altman did not inform the board that the company had developed and planned to release ChatGPT. He claimed that three enhancements to GPT-4 had been approved by a joint safety board the company had established with Microsoft; in fact, only one had been approved. Altman also let Microsoft test GPT-4 in India without the safety board's approval.

Imagine if the board had said that Altman also owned the OpenAI Startup Fund, an investment vehicle, personally — something else he hadn't told them about. (He explained that the fund was in his name for tax purposes, and meant to be a temporary arrangement, but the situation had persisted for two years.)

Imagine if the board had said that they were responding to concerns from top executives, who had complained about his leadership for months, and supplemented their allegations with dozens of examples, many of which were supported by screenshots from Slack.

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keachhagey.bsky.social @keachhagey.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Great chatting with @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @beckyquick.bsky.social at @squawkboxx.bsky.social this morning about my biography of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, THE OPTIMIST, coming May 20 from Norton. bit.ly/4hRzhR1

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