Murati testifies Altman lied about AI safety in court

OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Murati testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about safety standards for a new AI model, saying Altman claimed the deployment safety board wasn’t needed even though OpenAI’s legal department hadn’t determined that. She described misalignment between Altman and the company’s general counsel, and said she kept the model under review to be safe. Murati also characterized Altman as making her job harder and referenced a broader pattern of deception cited by others, including board members who fired him; she later left OpenAI to found Thinking Machines Lab.