OpenAI CEO was ‘totally wrong’ about antisemitism ‘on the American left’

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Open AI CEO Sam Altman said he was “totally wrong” about the extent to which “the American left” was rife with antisemitism.

Sam Altman OpenAI  CEO

“For a long time I said that antisemitism, particularly on the American left, was not as bad as people claimed.”

Sam Altman OpenAI  CEO

“I’d like to just state that I was totally wrong.”

Altman appeared at a loss to explain the phenomenon, writing: “I still don’t understand it, really. Or know what to do about it.”

Sam Altman OpenAI  CEO

“But it is so f–ked.”

Altman, who was reinstated last month as OpenAI CEO after he was ousted by the company board in a protracted and highly publicized power struggle, is the latest business titan to condemn antisemitism.

Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has been vocal in demanding the resignations of the heads of top universities, including at UPenn and Harvard, due to their refusal to condemn calls to kill Jews.

College campuses have been roiled these past two months in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists against Israel, which claimed the lives of 1,200 people.

Earlier this week, the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were called before a Congressional committee to answer questions about what was being done to combat antisemitism on campuses.

Ackman demanded that all three heads — Harvard President Claudine Gay, UPenn President Liz Magill, and MIT President Sally Kornbluth — “resign in disgrace” after they were asked whether calls to commit genocide against Jews violated campus speech policies.

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