Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words
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Source: The Verge (AI)May 6, 2026
Summary
Mira Murati, OpenAI's former Chief Technology Officer (CTO, a senior technical leader), testified in court that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about whether a new AI model needed safety review before being released to users. Murati stated under oath that Altman falsely claimed the legal department had approved skipping the company's safety review process, when this was not true.
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Attack SophisticationModerate
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/925338/openai-musk-v-altman-mira-murati
First tracked: May 6, 2026 at 02:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%