OpenAI's Sam Altman: Philosopher King Or Sociopath? - Week in Tech
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
OpenAI dominated this week's headlines — and it wasn’t all flattering. Reed Albergotti (Semafor) breaks down the chaos: IPO drama and Ronan Farrow's probing New Yorker profile of Sam Altman paint a picture of a company under pressure, even as it remains the most talked-about name in AI. Taylor Lorenz (User Mag) tells us about the AI tools marketed to schools as safety solutions that end up tracking students in ways with real consequences for kids and adults alike. And Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker) reviews the new book, Techno-Negative, tracing the long, often misunderstood history of anti-technology movements. Spoiler: it goes way deeper than the Luddites.
Additional Reading:
- Leap of Faith | Semafor
- Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker
- OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing | The Information
- They're Putting AI on School Buses | User Mag
- The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology | The New Yorker
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:16.1 | Kyle, Reid Taylor, good to see you all. |
| 0:19.0 | Reid and Taylor, you both have unexpected backgrounds today. |
| 0:21.5 | What's going on? |
| 0:22.5 | You go first, Taylor. |
| 0:23.6 | Okay. |
| 0:24.5 | I am currently on the floor of my Airbnb in San Francisco. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm up in SF this week for Human X, which is a big AI conference. |
| 0:35.4 | I was supposed to be there, but I sprained my ankle. |
| 0:38.1 | Can't the robot fix that? |
| 0:40.1 | Well, not yet. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm at hockey camp, not my hockey camp, but a kid's hockey camp. |
| 0:48.5 | It's spring break right now, so I can actually look down and watch hockey training while we do the podcast. |
| 0:56.1 | Well, thanks to both of you for your commitment. |
| 1:00.0 | Also, Kyle and Taylor, you guys had a breakout session last week, I gather, on Taylor's |
| 1:05.4 | podcast. What was that about? |
| 1:07.6 | I had Kyle on to talk about AI fruit slot. |
| 1:12.6 | The best form of content of late. |
| 1:15.9 | This is like the Love Island anthropomorphized fruit genre. |
| 1:20.5 | Kind of came and went maybe. |
| 1:22.2 | I don't know if people are still watching. |
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