OpenAI's trust problem is getting worse — here's your local plan B

This week, a massive New Yorker investigation landed with 1400+ upvotes on Hacker News and 30,000+ on Reddit. The piece details how OpenAI's Sam Altman allegedly lobbied against the same AI safety regulations he publicly supported, while pursuing billions from Gulf state autocracies. Around the same time, a separate story titled "The problem is Sam Altman" surfaced — claiming that OpenAI insiders themselves don't trust their own CEO. Then came reports that OpenAI execs had at one point discussed "What if we sold it to Putin?" as part of a bidding war scenario between China, Russia, and the US. And to top it off, Bernie Sanders went on record saying Congress must regulate AI before a handful of billionaires fundamentally transform humanity without democratic input . Whatever you think about any of these stories individually, the pattern is hard to ignore: the companies building the most powerful AI systems are also the ones least transparent about their governance. And we — the develope