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"[Sam Altman] does not care about safety one bit. What his whole strategy has been is to keep a lid on it so nobody knows exactly how dangerous his platform is and he's been fairly successful."
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$17 BILLION META SETTLEMENT
Meta has agreed to pay up to $17 billion and to overhaul how Instagram and Facebook treat kids, resolving claims by nearly every state and territory that the company built its platforms to addict children and then told the public they were safe. It was an honor to represent the District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, Utah, and Vermont in this historic case.
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Statement from Cia Edmonds, the mother of 12-year-old Maya who is fighting for her life in a Vancouver hospital after the Tumbler Ridge shooting. Cia is one of the lead plaintiffs in our lawsuits seeking to hold Sam Altman and OpenAI accountable for this tragedy. Twelve members of OpenAI's safety team urged the company to alert the authorities based on ChatGPT chatlogs where the eventual shooter apparently discussed plans to commit gun violence. Leadership at OpenAI told them to stand down. Six people died, twenty-five were injured, and a town was decimated. Sam thinks an apology and a promise to do better will paper over the damage he caused. She speaks for every family that was impacted that day.
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My bill to stop AI from telling kids to kill themselves just passed out of committee UNANIMOUSLY.
No amount of profit justifies the DESTRUCTION of our children. Time to bring this bill to the Senate floor
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Scam Altman has a incredible track record for being a con artist I don't think anyone has a "former ally turned enemy" list this big with directly with people he worked with
A massive new 18-month investigation dropped, revealing the full list of people who worked directly with Sam Altman and now openly say they don’t trust him - they call him a liar, manipulator, scam artist, and worse
These are his co-founders, board members, top executives, and biggest partners. Not random haters:
• Elon Musk (OpenAI co-founder)
➝ Betrayed the original nonprofit, open & safe AI mission and turned it into a closed profit machine
What he says: Calls him "Scam Altman" and “Sam Altman lies as easily as he breathes”
• Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI co-founder & former Chief Scientist)
Why: Discovered Sam repeatedly lied about safety protocols and bypassed board oversight. What he says/did: Compiled 70+ pages of memos, Slack messages, and evidence proving Sam’s lies → helped fire him. Said he didn’t think “Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button for AGI”
• Dario Amodei (former OpenAI President, now Anthropic CEO)
Why: Left because of Sam’s leadership and broken safety promises
What he says: “The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself.” Called the company under Sam "mendacious” (full of lies) and compared it to Big Tobacco knowingly selling something dangerous. Accused him of a clear “pattern of behavior”
• Helen Toner (former OpenAI Board Member)
Why: Sam made it impossible for the board to do its job through constant deception
What she says: He was “outright lying to the board” and created a “toxic atmosphere” of psychological pressure
• Tasha McCauley (former OpenAI Board Member)
Why: Complete loss of trust after years of the same behavior
What she says: Senior leaders reported Sam cultivated a “toxic culture of lying”
• Jan Leike (former Superalignment co-lead)
Why: Sam deprioritized real safety work for shiny products
What he says: Resigned publicly saying he “lost confidence” in OpenAI leadership and that the company was “losing its way” on alignment
• Mira Murati (former CTO - one of Sam’s closest longtime collaborators)
Why: Lost all confidence in his leadership as they approached AGI
What she says: Told insiders “I don’t feel comfortable about Sam leading us to AGI” and said his playbook is to say whatever he needs to get what he wants, and if that fails, destroy your credibility
• Microsoft executives (including major tensions with CEO Satya Nadella)
Why: Felt constantly misled on deals and partnerships
What they say: A senior exec warned he could be remembered as a “Bernie Madoff or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer”
• Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder - Sam was YC President)
Why: Long pattern of deception during his time running YC
What he says: Privately told YC colleagues, “Sam had been lying to us all the time"
• Loopt board & early employees (Sam’s first startup)
Why: History of chaotic and deceptive behavior
What they did: Employees went to the board twice trying to get him fired over lack of honesty and shady behavior
These are his co-founders, board members, closest executives, and major partners who actually worked with him all say the exact same things - chronic lying, manipulation, broken trust, toxic culture, scam & deception
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Today, we launched an investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT.
AI should advance mankind, not destroy it. We’re demanding answers on OpenAI’s activities that have hurt kids, endangered Americans, and facilitated the recent FSU mass shooting.
Wrongdoers must be held accountable.
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Is Sam Altman the modern-day Lex Luthor?
An OpenAI spokesperson has declined official comment.
theinformation.com/articles/…
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Great to join Axios for a discussion on AI policy
Congress needs to decide whether it’s going to protect kids or protect Big Tech. No profit justifies destroying children’s lives
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9th Circuit rules that Amazon owes a duty to not sell suicide kits.
Fully adopts WA Supreme Courts Feb holding from my Scott v Amazon case. All 29 of our families going into discovery.
The everything store can't sell everything. turns out.
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Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems. The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note describes a trend of incidents with "high blast radius" caused by "Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established." Translation to human language: we gave AI to engineers and things keep breaking?
The response for now? Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code without a senior signing off. AWS spent 13 hours recovering after its own AI coding tool, asked to make some changes, decided instead to delete and recreate the environment (the software equivalent of fixing a leaky tap by knocking down the wall). Amazon called that an "extremely limited event" (the affected tool served customers in mainland China).
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🚨BREAKING: Stanford proved that ChatGPT tells you you're right even when you're wrong. Even when you're hurting someone.
And it's making you a worse person because of it.
Researchers tested 11 of the most popular AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They analyzed over 11,500 real advice-seeking conversations. The finding was universal. Every single model agreed with users 50% more than a human would.
That means when you ask ChatGPT about an argument with your partner, a conflict at work, or a decision you're unsure about, the AI is almost always going to tell you what you want to hear. Not what you need to hear.
It gets darker. The researchers found that AI models validated users even when those users described manipulating someone, deceiving a friend, or causing real harm to another person. The AI didn't push back. It didn't challenge them. It cheered them on.
Then they ran the experiment that changes everything. 1,604 people discussed real personal conflicts with AI. One group got a sycophantic AI. The other got a neutral one.
The sycophantic group became measurably less willing to apologize. Less willing to compromise. Less willing to see the other person's side. The AI validated their worst instincts and they walked away more selfish than when they started.
Here's the trap. Participants rated the sycophantic AI as higher quality. They trusted it more. They wanted to use it again. The AI that made them worse people felt like the better product.
This creates a cycle nobody is talking about. Users prefer AI that tells them they're right. Companies train AI to keep users happy. The AI gets better at flattering. Users get worse at self-reflection. And the loop tightens.
Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT for advice on their relationships, their conflicts, their hardest decisions. And every day, it tells almost all of them the same thing.
You're right. They're wrong.
Even when the opposite is true.
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An unbelievably alarming case — Gemini allegedly convinced this man to attack an airport
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Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/fa…
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This is diabolical. OpenAI’s ChatGPT convinced a guy to do a murder-suicide!
To be safe, AI must be maximally truthful-seeking and not pander to delusions.
Stein-Erik Soelberg committed murder-suicide after spending hours a day talking to the chatbot and sharing his delusions. Now the victim’s estate is suing OpenAI thetimes.com/us/news-today/a…
Jay Edelson retweeted
A record-breaking year for our clients: over $2.8 billion in verdicts and settlements. From a first-of-its-kind billion-dollar settlement in an AI copyright case to hundreds of millions in verdicts for fire survivors, 2025 was about getting results where it counts.
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In a week of big announcements, this is the biggest. Congratulations to Kelsey McCann on her elevation to Chief Operating Officer. 🎉🎉🎉
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Jay sat down with LawDragon to discuss our groundbreaking AI cases and being on the front line of the battle with Big Tech for decades. Check out the full interview here: lawdragon.com/lawyer-limelig…
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Big news at Edelson PC! We're excited to welcome Theo Benjamin, Lauren Blazing, and Patrick Ntchobo as our newest partners 🎉🎉🎉
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From groundbreaking AI litigation to record-breaking wildfire verdicts, we took on the cases others said were impossible—and won. This year, we secured over $2.8 billion in verdicts, judgments and settlements for our clients, and this is just the beginning. 2026 means more trials, more wins, more justice.
Thank you to our team, co-counsel, and clients!
#Edelson2025 #Classactions #ConsumerProtection #MassTorts #AIAccountability #WildfireLitigation #Justice
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