The Aboard Podcast
Andrew Marantz: What’s Wrong With Sam Altman?
May 5, 2026
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47 min 36 sec
What’s wrong with Sam Altman? Ask the guy who spent 18 months reporting on him. On this week’s podcast, Paul and Rich are joined by New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz, who recently put out a lengthy article on the OpenAI chief that he co-reported with Ronan Farrow. After they dive into some of the specific details of the piece, they discuss the broader questions Altman’s position in the industry raises. If AI really is as powerful as he claims it will someday be, why are we allowing one person to have that much power over it?
Show Notes
- The article in question (with art that might haunt your nightmares): “Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?”
- “Andrew Marantz on Janet Flanner’s ‘Führer’”
- In addition to his writing at The New Yorker, Andrew is the author of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians and the Hijacking of the American Conversation.
Transcript
Transcript coming soon!