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The bizarre and messy court battle between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former OpenAI investor Elon Musk trudges on. And this week, as revealed in court, OpenAI’s former Chief Technology Office had some extremely interesting — and at points, alarming — things to say about her time working under Altman.
Appearing in a video deposition on Wednesday, former OpenAI CTO and current Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati, while under threat of perjury, had much to say about Altman’s long-alleged perfidy — a rumored trait so widely discussed that it was the subject of a remarkable investigation by The New Yorker just last month.
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?
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