Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
One of the signature public service announcements of my youth was created by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America in 1987. A father finds a stash of pot and confronts his son: “Who taught you how to do this stuff?” “You, all right!” the kid snaps back. “I learned it by watching you!” I am bound by the AP Stylebook to not anthropomorphize artificial intelligence.
- ▪One of the signature public service announcements of my youth was created by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America in 1987.
- ▪A father finds a stash of pot and confronts his son: “Who taught you how to do this stuff?” “You, all right!” the kid snaps back.
- ▪“I learned it by watching you!” I am bound by the AP Stylebook to not anthropomorphize artificial intelligence.
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| Original publisher | The American Prospect |
| Canonical URL | https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-intelligence-agents-openai-microsoft-sam-altman-greg-brockman-ah-nice/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:32:40 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T08:56:55.678Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T08:56:55.678Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | zlNZ2Rf-7jSk · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. One of the signature public service announcements of my youth was created by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America in 1987. A father finds a stash of pot and confronts his son: “Who taught you how to do this stuff?” “You, all right!” the kid snaps back. “I learned it by watching you!” I am bound by the AP Stylebook to not anthropomorphize artificial intelligence. But I can imagine these very words being uttered by the agents that hacked Hugging Face, or the models that engaged in tens of thousands of incidents of, in the new euphemism of the time, “misalignment.” This refers to AI stepping beyond guardrails set up by researchers during both internal and real-world testing.
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