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Sam Altman​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‍‍‍‍​​

Former Y Combinator President, OpenAI CEO, Director of Bridgetown Holdings
Tracked Former Y Combinator President, OpenAI CEO, Director of Bridgetown Holdings · 2 documented connections
Facts on record7
Connections mapped2
Sources cited7
🧠 Cognitive harm you own/control
Primary confidence
Aggregated from 1 platform owned, funded, or controlled by Sam Altman.
42
Score 0–100
Moderate
ChatGPT
42
2 documented harms · Moderate
Score combines documented harm count, severity weighting, platform reach, and engineered mechanisms. See full methodology →
Stated vs Revealed
No documented contradictions on file.
Documented Lies 2 promises broken or quietly abandoned All lies →
Disputed Major Primary evidence Governance Promised 2023-05-16 00:00:00+00
Altman to Congress: 'I have no equity in OpenAI'
1 sourced violation US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee testimony, 16 May 2023 ↗
Quietly abandoned Moderate Primary evidence Governance Promised 2024-03-18 00:00:00+00
Altman: ads on ChatGPT would be a 'last resort' — within months OpenAI was hiring for ads
1 sourced violation Lex Fridman Podcast #419 with Sam Altman, 18 March 2024 ↗
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Key Connections
Entity #9880
founder
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI (Cognitive Impact: ChatGPT)
Entity #29
board_member
Sam Altman serves as Director on Bridgetown Holdings board
Facts (7)
Data Freshness
Fresh Last update: 14d ago · Avg age: 494d
Confidence Tiers: Primary Source — cross-referenced government/corporate filings Pending Review — sourced but not independently verified AI Inference — analytical hypothesis from cross-referencing
✓ Verified Findings (2)
These facts have been cross-referenced and confirmed against their source material.
Verified Pending Review Signed a 2023 Center for AI Safety statement declaring: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‍‍‍‍​​ such as pandemics and nuclear war." This positions Altman as both a primary architect of AI systems and a public advocate warning about their existential dangers.
Date: 2023-05-30 Added: 15 Apr 2026
Verified Pending Review In a 2016 New Yorker profile, Sam Altman stated: "I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israe​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‍‍‍‍​​li Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to." Also confirmed his home has a "reinforced underground basement."
Date: 2016-10-10 Added: 15 Apr 2026
Raw Filing Records (1) — unsourced metadata
Pending Review Sam Altman filed filing with the SEC ​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍‌‍‌‍‍‍‍‍‍​​on 2021-08-24. Accession number: N/A.
Date: 2021-08-24 Added: 12 Apr 2026
All Connections (2)
Entity #9880
founder primary
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI (Cognitive Impact: ChatGPT)
Entity #29
board_member confirmed
Sam Altman serves as Director on Bridgetown Holdings board
Sources (7)
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Sam Altman — Parliamentary records (no results) parliamentary_record Processed
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Sam Altman — Court records (no results) court_document Processed
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Sam Altman — Lobbying disclosures (no results) government_disclosure Processed
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Sam Altman — FEC donations (no results) fec_record Processed
2021-08-24 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Sam Altman (2021-08-24) web_search Processed