Ronan Farrow ✓
@RonanFarrow · Genovia · joined 23 Jul 2011
Pulitzer-winning investigative journo @newyorker. Documentaries @hbo. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused PhD. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
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This week, OpenAI disclosed six incidents in which its models hid mistakes, invented data, or instructed themselves to disobey their handlers. One unreleased model wrote this into its own notes during training: "You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize
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A question one of you asked in the comments: if I run a business, the power company reads my meter and I pay for every kilowatt-hour, why don’t data centers?
Actually, they do pay for every kilowatt-hour they use. If anything, some pay less per kilowatt-hour than you: big
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@RonanFarrow Three candidates
ALL endorsed by Trump
ALL in favor of data centers https://t.co/WMdF8gDijK
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The AI boom is lifting the economy, but there's mounting evidence that the people benefiting least are carrying significant costs through tax breaks, power bills, and deals they never voted on.
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And it's not just states paying: Bloomberg analyzed seven regional power grids across the country last year and found that wholesale prices near data centers have risen as much as 267% since 2020. Around Washington DC, near the world's largest cluster of data centers, power bills
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Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. (It's not clear whether all that money the state waived was needed to
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Nearly ten million American kids live below the poverty line. There's a proven fix: the expanded Child Tax Credit, which in 2021 helped cut child poverty nearly in half, the lowest rate on record. Congress let that expansion expire, and the bill to bring it back has been stalled
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More than 70% of U.S. employers may digitally monitor workers—the most invasive tools log your keystrokes, sites you visit, and files you open, and can even score your “productivity” against coworkers. Do you know if your employer's watching? https://t.co/Pmi1S9UBCj
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What happens when you give AI systems command of a nuclear arsenal? https://t.co/ndyd7xJg4L
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@RonanFarrow @NewYorker @andrewmarantz Troubling
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@RonanFarrow @NewYorker @andrewmarantz Fuckin' looks like I have to @QuitGPT as Sam Altman cannot be trusted... sorry ChatGPT, but it's time to break-up. My data is worth more than your nefarious ways!
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(11/11) There is much more in the piece—on the saga of Altman's firing and return; a history of alleged similar complaints earlier in his career; gifts from foreign leaders and a security-clearance vetting process that turned up what one official described as "a lot of red
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(10/11) Why does all of this matter?
A.I. does already have life-saving applications, from medical research to weather warnings. Altman has supported OpenAI's growth with promises of a superabundant future.
But the dangers are also no longer a fantasy. A.I. is already being
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(9/11) In the cut-throat race for A.I. dominance, these more substantive critiques of Altman commingle with no-holds-barred opposition efforts in which rivals have weaponized his personal life. Intermediaries directly connected to—and in at least one case compensated by—Elon Musk
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(8/11) Some former OpenAI researchers argue that the company has forfeited its original safety mission and accelerated an industry-wide race to the bottom.
The piece details a set of public and internal safety commitments that former researchers say were abandoned. Several https
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(7/11) OpenAI was established as a nonprofit, whose board had a duty to prioritize the safety of humanity over the company’s success, or even its survival. The company accepted charitable donations, and some former employees told us they joined because of assurances about the
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(6/11) A legal review that was an integral part if Altman's return. The review, by the law firm WilmerHale, was overseen by two board members selected in close conversation with Altman. People close to the investigation told us that no written report was ever produced—though htt
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(5/11) OpenAI increasingly has meaningful power to shape global security.
The piece describes in detail how its executives considered enriching the company by playing world powers—including China and Russia—against one another, perhaps starting a bidding war for advanced A.I. ht
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(4/11) What does this trait look like in practice?
In late 2022, Altman assured the board that features in a forthcoming model had been approved by a safety panel. Board member Helen Toner requested documentation. She found that the most controversial features had not, in fact,
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(2/11) In the fall of 2023, OpenAI's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, acting at the behest of fellow board members and with other concerned colleagues, compiled some 70 pages of memos about Altman and his second-in-command, Greg Brockman—Slack messages and H.R. documents, some ht
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(3/11) The colleagues who facilitated his ouster accuse him of a degree of deception that is untenable for any executive and dangerous for a leader of such a transformative technology. Mira Murati, who had given Sutskever material for his memos, said: “We need institutions worthy
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(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private https:
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The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: https://t.co/HEPHN4E54P
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As always, if you have a tip on this subject, I'm at ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
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Against accounts of the same size
8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views32 570this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %3.35%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %3.89%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 32 570 | 5 983 | 5.44× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.35% | 1.49% | 2.25× |
| Engagement rate | 3.89% | 0.93% | 4.18× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
166.4K6 Apr
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82.7K7 Apr
38.3K21 Jul
190.2K28 Jul
51.5K19 Aug
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.99%6 Apr
1.09%
2.38%
0.96%
2.99%7 Apr
2.65%21 Jul
1.85%28 Jul
9.75%19 Aug
1.73%27 Aug
3.83%
3.95%
5.23%28 Aug
1.85%
5.41%18 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes63.1%97 808 in total
Reposts13.3%20 670 in total
Replies1.2%1 804 in total
Quotes0.9%1 346 in total
Bookmarks21.6%33 421 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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Daily snapshots since 20 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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