Sam Altman

The CEO of OpenAI and co-founder accused by Musk of shifting the company toward profit-seeking motives.

“Yeah. It's Musk levying this lawsuit, which has been years now in the making. He's saying that with this project that he got involved with with OpenAI so many years ago, he was duped, essentially, from creating what he thought would be a nonprofit to build art…”

Attempted to present himself as a humble, optimistic entrepreneur, though he faced intense scrutiny regarding his honesty and trustworthiness.

“But [laughs] I think he has a type of charisma that actually works for him. He's more soft-spoken. He was leaning into this sort of like, "I'm an entrepreneur who cares about the world. Clearly not as famous as Elon Musk, but I came from humble beginnings and …”

The current leader of OpenAI whom Musk is seeking to remove from the board.

“So Musk is asking for a lot. For one, he wants $150 billion, with a B, in damages, but he's saying, "Not for me, of course. It's to be returned to the nonprofit organization," which is, like, the parent of OpenAI, the for-profit company. So it's like this, quo…”

The CEO of OpenAI whose personal investments and financial holdings were scrutinized during the trial.

“We did a story before the trial basically saying that Musk was an underdog in the case, and we even looked at prediction markets, which had kind of found that to be true, too. And so yes, this was the outcome that was expected. However, one of the most am- int…”

An early entrepreneur who advised Chesky on the importance of spending 50% of his time on hiring.

“I start trying to focus on, like, how good of a company Airbnb is, and I take it to, like, projects. So I'll give you one example of a project I focus on. One is I want to build the best team possible. So twice a year, we do this, like, giant thing we call roa…”

Testified about his interactions with Elon Musk regarding the future and leadership of OpenAI.

“This is from the Elon-OpenAI trial this week. Sam Altman was on the witness stand Tuesday and testified that at one point, Elon thought he should run OpenAI. Sam asked him, "Hey, what do you think would happen to the company if you died?" And according to Sam,…”

Mentioned as a signatory of a letter warning about the existential risks of AI.

“risks such as pandemics, nuclear war," signed by Bill Gates and Sam Altman and Dario Amodei and many, many others. You didn't sign this letter, and you have been really clear that you are not worried about it. You think a lot of this is alarmism, a lot of the …”

Stern challenged him regarding the lack of privacy protections for AI services compared to doctors or lawyers.

“But, um, w- why did you feel that that was okay to do that? Because one, as you know, these services are not bound by the way lawyers are. They don't... Lawyers have issues if they do things with your information. Doctors have HIPAA. Uh, therapists, same thing…”

Cited as an example of a tech leader whose public rhetoric shifted to align with political power for status and business protection.

“And I think the thing that risks their status, which is what they care about more than anything else in the games that they're playing, is losing to their direct competition. And it's quite clear to me that if someone like Sam Altman was to say anything negati…”

Mentioned as a key participant in the conflict involving OpenAI.

“Well, look what's happening in OpenAI right now, the trial with Musk and OpenAI and Sam Altman. Why are they there? Why are they exposing themselves?”