OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and billionaire fund manager Bill Ackman (right).Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images; Richard Brian/Reuters
Published December 8, 2023
- Bill Ackman has a new comrade in his crusade against antisemitism.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he’d underestimated just how bad antisemitism had gotten in the US.
- Both businessmen have written posts on X saying antisemitism is a problem in America.
Sam Altman and Bill Ackman appear to be on the same page.
On Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X to share his views on the state of antisemitism in the US.
“For a long time I said that antisemitism, particularly on the American left, was not as bad as people claimed,” Altman wrote in an X post. “I’d like to just state that I was totally wrong.”
“I still don’t understand it, really. Or know what to do about it. But it is so fucked,” Altman, who is of Jewish descent, continued.
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SOURCE: www.businessinsider.com
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The AI impresario delivered a message to fellow liberals on the first night of Hanukkah
Published December 8, 2023
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Thursday he was “totally wrong” for previously downplaying antisemitism, calling the prejudice “so f–ed.”
“for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed,” wrote Altman in a post to X, formerly Twitter.
“i’d like to just state that i was totally wrong.”
“i still don’t understand it, really. or know what to do about it,” he continued. “but it is so f—ed.”
It was not immediately clear what, specifically, prompted the message from Altman — who last month was fired and rehired as CEO of the ChatGPT developer in the span of days — but it came on the first night of Hanukkah and amid intensifying antisemitism fueled by the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, as well as a growing crisis at the nation’s most elite universities over their handling of that antisemitism.
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SOURCE: www.themessenger.com
RELATED: Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents under fire over ‘despicable’ testimony on antisemitism and genocide
Bill Ackman, chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management.
Published December 6, 2023
The presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania faced intense scrutiny on Wednesday from business leaders, donors and politicians following their testimony at a House hearing on antisemitism on campus and calls for genocide in Israel.
The criticism focused on the university leaders’ answers to questions on Tuesday about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates their respective school’s code of conduct on bullying or harassment.
None of the school leaders explicitly said that calling for the genocide of Jews would necessarily violate their code of conduct. Instead, they explained it would depend on the circumstances and conduct.
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SOURCE: www.amp.cnn.com
