OpenAI board · official statementConfirmed
OpenAI’s Nov. 17, 2023 post said the board concluded Altman was not consistently candid and no longer had confidence in his ability to lead.
OpenAI statement →Section 01 — The trust record
They all said the same thing.
Not critics. Not outsiders. His co-founder said he “should not have his finger on the AGI button.” A mentor said he’d “been lying to us all the time.” His own board removed him for being “not consistently candid.” The people who know him best — named, quoted, and sourced.
The damning line in each is in bold. Every card links to its source, and every claim is tagged Confirmed Reported or Attributed.
Altman, to the board · New Yorker (Farrow)Reported
Pressed to own a pattern of deception after his firing, Altman reportedly said he couldn’t change his personality. He later said he may have meant uniting factions.
New Yorker →Ilya Sutskever · New Yorker / AtlanticReported
Sutskever warned Altman should not have his finger on the AGI button; a memo’s pattern list reportedly opened with one item: “Lying.”
New Yorker →Jan Leike · Fortune / on XReported
Leike, who co-led OpenAI’s alignment team, resigned in May 2024 warning that at OpenAI “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products” — that he’d hit a breaking point with leadership.
Fortune, 2024 →Mira Murati · The AtlanticReported
The Atlantic reported Murati told board members she did not feel comfortable with Altman leading OpenAI to AGI.
Atlantic →Murati / GPT-4 Turbo · New Yorker / AtlanticReported
A dispute over GPT-4 Turbo safety review, with Murati checking with legal after Altman allegedly gave a different impression of what was approved.
Atlantic →Toner + McCauley · TechCrunchReported
Trial testimony from former board members said Altman misled them, with language about a toxic culture of lying.
TechCrunch →Anonymous board member · New YorkerReported
Farrow and Marantz reported a board member called Altman “unconstrained by truth” with an extraordinary disregard for the consequences of deception.
New Yorker →Aaron Swartz · New YorkerAttributed
The New Yorker reported Swartz warned friends years earlier that Altman “can never be trusted.” Treat as attributed reporting, not a medical claim.
New Yorker →Dario Amodei · New YorkerReported
Amodei’s notes reportedly concluded “the problem with OpenAI is Sam himself” after repeated safety and governance conflicts.
New Yorker →Jeffrey Ladish · public postReported
Called Altman deeply untrustworthy, low in integrity, and high in power-seeking — not the person for world-shaping AGI power.
New Yorker →Paul Graham / YC · New Yorker (Farrow)Reported
YC’s co-founder reportedly told colleagues, around Altman’s exit from YC’s leadership, that “Sam had been lying to us all the time.”
New Yorker →Senior tech executive · New Yorker (Farrow)Reported
Told the New Yorker there is “a small but real chance” Altman is one day remembered as a Madoff- or Bankman-Fried-level scammer.
New Yorker →2026 — and it isn’t getting better
Jun 2026 · Alleged
A state sued him by name.
Florida sued OpenAI and Sam Altman personally, alleging it put profit over child safety and seeking penalties potentially in the billions — the first state lawsuit against OpenAI. The claims are unproven.
Fortune →May 2026 · Reported
“A toxic culture of lying.”
Under oath at the Musk v. Altman trial, former OpenAI directors testified Altman misled them, with Tasha McCauley describing “a toxic culture of lying” at the company.
TechCrunch →Late 2025 · Reported
They deleted “safely.”
During its for-profit restructuring, OpenAI quietly dropped the word “safely” from its mission — from “AI that safely benefits humanity” to just “benefits all of humanity.”
The Conversation →May 2026 · Reported
Congress wants his conflicts.
House Oversight Chair James Comer opened a probe into Altman’s financial conflicts of interest, demanding documents tied to OpenAI’s never-disclosed 2023 internal audit-committee findings.
House Oversight →From the timeline
Critics argue Sam Altman should never have been taken seriously as the steward of AGI-scale power.
— boneGPT (@boneGPT) May 21, 2025
"You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted." "He is a sociopath. He would do anything." — Aaron Swartz on Altman, shortly before he took his own life
— AI Safety Memes (@AISafetyMemes) on X
On the record — in his own words
Caught on camera.
Two receipts that need no spin: what he snapped when an investor pressed him on the money, and what 300 interviews found about how OpenAI was really built.
// The money question
Sam Altman is asked about profitability. What was his response?
“If you want to sell your shares, I’ll find you a buyer. Enough.”
Pressed by an investor on how a ~$13B-revenue company commits ~$1.4 TRILLION in spend, he snapped. Reported · Futurism, Nov 2025 →
// The deep read
“Karen Hao interviewed 300 people, including 90 current and former OpenAI employees. And she just told Steven Bartlett what she discovered…”
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“Every single person who built OpenAI alongside Altman eventually felt the same thing… Used. Manipulated. Discarded.”
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“No other tech company in history has had every single co-builder leave and start a direct competitor. Not Google. Not Meta. Not Apple. NOBODY.”
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“The biggest AI company on Earth wasn’t built on technology. It was built on one man’s ability to tell everyone exactly what they needed to hear.”
— @Ric_RTP, summarizing Karen Hao’s reporting · full thread →The whistleblower
He went public. A month later he was dead.
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, publicly argued the company’s training violated copyright law — which OpenAI disputes. He was found dead in San Francisco. Officials ruled it suicide; his family disputes that and has gone to court for records. That alone is enough to demand real transparency.
A witness is dead.
When a former employee and potential witness dies under circumstances his own family still disputes, the right posture from powerful AI institutions is humility, records preservation, and independent review — not boredom, not PR fog, not a shrug.
“I have not talked to the authorities.”
Asked on camera whether he thought it was suicide, Altman said “I really do” — and admitted he had never contacted the authorities. He says he read the file. The family is still demanding answers.
// Carlson presses Altman on Balaji’s death.
// The Balaji case, in depth.
Section 02 — The wrong face
Nobody asked for this face.
Only 5% of Americans think AI is built by people who represent their interests. 71% don’t want a data center near them. 55% say AI does more harm than good. This is the man fronting the most powerful technology ever built — and tying the legitimacy of all of it to himself.
What Americans actually think — 2025–2026 polling
the poster child
The face of the thing people distrust.
Reuters literally called him the “AI poster child.” When a technology is this unpopular, its most famous champion sets the tone for all of it — and the public has decided it does not trust the people building AI to keep it safe.
his own board
The people who knew him best lost confidence.
This isn’t a hit piece talking. OpenAI’s own safety board removed him in 2023 for not being “consistently candid,” and a 2026 New Yorker investigation quoted a board member calling him “unconstrained by truth.” You cannot anchor public trust in AI to that.
the stakes
AGI-scale power needs trust, not a trust crisis.
Most Americans say government isn’t doing enough to regulate AI, and most want a brake on it. Handing the wheel of a technology this contested to the one figure insiders keep warning about is exactly backwards.
Section 03 — The money loop
$13 billion in. $1.4 trillion promised.
The same chipmakers, clouds, and investors often sit on both ends of the same capital cycle — a supplier that funds its own customer, an investor that also rents it the cloud. We mapped 832 source-labeled relationships with about $9.1T in tagged-dollar scale: valuations, multi-year commitments, debt, capex, and ceilings — not cash that changed hands.
// The post that started it all
“basically every company the openai startup fund invested in is some sort of fuckery. they are circular deals where these guys buy billions of tokens and the sama gang makes millions. somebody needs to do a write up on every investment with all the red flags.”
boneGPT (@boneGPT) · May 5 2026 · on X →
So we did — open the live explorer
Marquee round-trip deals · a few of 832
NVIDIA → OpenAIChipmaker pledges up to $100B to the lab that buys its chips
≤$100BMicrosoft ⇄ OpenAI~27% as-converted stake; ~$250B committed back to Azure
$250BAmazon ⇄ AnthropicInvests billions; $100B+ committed back to AWS & Trainium
$100B+Oracle ⇄ OpenAI~$300B compute commitment anchoring the Stargate buildout
$300BNVIDIA ⇄ CoreWeaveBacks the neocloud that buys its chips and rents them back
backstopCoreWeave ⇄ Meta$21B expanded deal through 2032; NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems
$21BAMD → OpenAIChip supply tied to warrants — equity in its own supplier
6 GWFollowing the money
Scam Altman owned the OpenAI Startup fund while simultaneously lying to the world that he didn't financially benefit from OpenAI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
The bull case, critics say, is a greater-fool trade dressed up as inevitability.
— boneGPT (@boneGPT) November 9, 2025
Section 04 — The bargain
They take the upside. You get the risk.
AI will throw off historic wealth and gut millions of jobs in the gap before anyone’s promised “abundance” arrives. The floor has to come first. Silicon Valley used to say so out loud — then it went quiet and started trying to hand you a slice of compute instead of a paycheck.
the bait-and-switch
“Universal basic compute.” Seriously.
Altman floated replacing UBI with “universal basic compute” — everyone gets “a slice of GPT-7’s compute.” You cannot pay rent with a slice of a chatbot. The house answer is now a “public wealth fund” of AI equity — anything but cash in people’s hands.
Altman, All-In, 2024 →funded it, then bailed
$14M to prove it works. Then silence.
Altman put about $14M into the biggest US basic-income study — $1,000/month to 1,000 people for three years. Then in 2026 he announced he “no longer believe[s] in universal basic income as much as I once did.” Convenient timing.
Yahoo Finance, 2026 →the Valley got amnesia
Notice who stopped saying it.
The founders who hyped UBI through the 2010s went quiet the moment the layoffs got real — swapping cash for “universal basic AI” and other euphemisms. As one writer put it: UBI hands power to workers, so “no wonder Altman and Musk don’t talk about it anymore.”
Read Max, 2025 →“We can’t afford it.” We can. Look where it all went.
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The gap is the danger — and it’s already opening.Anthropic’s own CEO warns AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs. The stretch between “your job is gone” and “abundance arrived” is where families get crushed.
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The money is right there. Tax it.Tax the AI giants, the billionaires, and the corporations paying single-digit rates. Altman himself once proposed taxing big companies 2.5% a year for a citizens’ dividend — before he went quiet.
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Make it real money.Not a $200 gesture. A floor people can actually live on — on the order of thousands a month, and more for those whose jobs get automated away. A token isn’t a floor; it’s a press release.
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The alternative is collapse, not utopia.If the windfall from mass layoffs flows to the 0.1% while everyone else loses their paycheck, you don’t get post-scarcity — you get an unstable country.
Section 05 — Not in my backyard
The compute has to land somewhere.
This isn’t anti-AI — the country genuinely needs this infrastructure. But it’s being built by dumping the costs on ordinary people and funneling the upside to a handful of balance sheets: bills up, water gone, air fouled, profits out. That’s how you lose the public — and the public is already gone.
the bill lands on you
You pay. They profit.
On the largest US grid, wholesale power jumped ~76% in a year, and PJM’s own market monitor pinned data-center demand as the driver — a $13B cost increase it called “not reversible.”
E&E News →the public revolted
The backlash is here — and bipartisan.
71% oppose a data center near them (Gallup, 2026). In one quarter, local opposition blocked or delayed $98B in projects; dozens of jurisdictions passed moratoriums. Tucson killed an Amazon-linked project 7–0 over water.
Gallup →the wrong messenger
And they sent the worst salesman alive.
You cannot ask a town to give up its power and water “on trust” with the industry’s most distrusted figure as the face of the ask. The posture is “they hate us anyway.” That ends in burned-out substations, not data centers.
Do it right — or don’t act surprised when it burns.
Build them — with enforceable community-benefit agreements, ratepayer protection, real environmental cleanup, and local jobs. Make the companies pay their own way instead of socializing the costs and privatizing the gains.
Then get the money to people.
The wealth these build-outs throw off cannot vanish into the top 0.1% while the workers they automate get nothing. Tax it, share it, and put a real cash floor under everyone. That’s the public bargain above.
Section 06 — The burn
The playa remembers.
Where the culture that built this meets the man now steering it. Ten years of receipts on the Silicon Valley elite who use the desert as moral cover — one giant, scrolling wall of headlines.
Section 07 — Pay it to the parents
We take $0. It goes to his family.
The merch isn’t the point — it’s the funnel. Every dollar of profit goes to the parents of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, who went into debt fighting for the truth about how their son died. The person running this site keeps nothing.
100%
Option A · 100% · no middleman
Give to the family’s own fund
“Justice for Suchir Balaji,” organized by his mother Poornima Ramarao, funds the independent investigation. It’s covered by GoFundMe’s Giving Guarantee and every donation is listed publicly. Your money goes straight to the family.
Give on GoFundMe →Option B · profit donated · receipts posted
Buy the merch
Wear the argument and fund the family in one move. We keep $0 — every dollar of profit after printing and fees is donated into that same GoFundMe, logged in a public ledger you can check against GoFundMe itself.
The pledge & the receipts →⚠ Only the GoFundMe organized by Poornima Ramarao is official. Treat crypto wallets and any “SUCHIR” coin using his name as unverified — do not send money there. See how we keep this honest →
Don’t just read this — move
Grow a spine. Speak the fuck up.
Complacency is the whole strategy. He keeps the seat because the people who know better keep their heads down and keep shipping. Staying quiet isn’t neutral — right now it’s his best asset.
If you work in AI — if you work at OpenAI — say it on the record. If you don’t, say it anyway: loud, in public, where it counts. Quit pretending you can keep your head down and let someone else rock the boat. Nobody is coming to do this for you.
And tag the people who actually build this — ask them, out loud, where they stand. Silence is a choice.
Section 08 — Last line
You’ve read the record. Now decide.
OpenAI is already the most valuable private company on earth — near $852 billion, eyeing a trillion-dollar IPO, on roughly $1.4 trillion in promised compute. The man steering it is the one his own board removed for not being “consistently candid.” As Yoshua Bengio warns, a few people controlling superhuman AI would hold “a level of power never before seen in human history” — a direct contradiction of democracy.
AGI is too important for us to deify another smooth talking narcissist. Three true statements: + Sam Altman & OpenAI pushed AI forward by years + No one man should have that much power in AI + We need open-source competition.
— Ryan Selkis (@Selkis_2028) May 21, 2024
Critics say they'd sooner trust the pope than Sam Altman.
— boneGPT (@boneGPT) May 25, 2026
His own board didn’t trust him. Only 5% of you do.
Sam Altman needs to step down — say it, loud, until he’s gone.
Who's behind this
No super PAC. No hit piece. Nobody is paying for this. I’m one person who is all-in on AI — I love it, I live in it — and that’s exactly why I won’t pretend it’s fine that the man his own board called “not consistently candid” is the one steering it. That’s the whole reason this exists.
— It’s just Stoned Ape.