Ronan Farrow on Instagram: "During the Biden administration, Sam Altman withdrew from a process in which he had been exploring getting a security clearance to join classified AI policy discussions. Staffers at the RAND Corporation, which helped coordinate the process, were skeptical he could get a clearance due to his extensive foreign entanglements—one noted that he’d been raising “hundreds of billions of dollars” from foreign governments. Why? To build AI at the scale and speed he wanted, Altman needed money that few entities on earth possess—and the company considered extraordinary plans to achieve this. According to internal documents, OpenAI once considered auctioning off access to advanced AI models to governments, deliberately playing world powers against each other. A junior researcher recalled thinking: “This is completely fucking insane.” Watch to learn more about how AI companies are shaping the balance of power in the world. And read the full story now in The New Yorker—link in bio. #openai #samaltman #middleeast #geopolítics #artificialintelligence"

22K likes, 520 comments - ronanfarrow on April 15, 2026: "During the Biden administration, Sam Altman withdrew from a process in which he had been exploring getting a security clearance to join classified AI policy discussions. Staffers at the RAND Corporation, which helped coordinate the process, were skeptical he could get a clearance due to his extensive foreign entanglements—one noted that he’d been raising “hundreds of billions of dollars” from foreign governments. Why? To build AI at the scale and speed he wanted, Altman needed money that few entities on earth possess—and the company considered extraordinary plans to achieve this. According to internal documents, OpenAI once considered auctioning off access to advanced AI models to governments, deliberately playing world powers against each other. A junior researcher recalled thinking: “This is completely fucking insane.” Watch to learn more about how AI companies are shaping the balance of power in the world. And read the full story now in The New Yorker—link in bio. #openai #samaltman #middleeast #geopolítics #artificialintelligence".

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