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OpenAI has come up in 10 episodes across 8 podcasts in TMT, including Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, The Ezra Klein Show. 5 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Jeffrey LadishExecutive director of Palisade Research and cybersecurity specialist who formerly worked on security at Anthropic
Ladish stands by his tweet calling Sam Altman untrustworthy, saying Altman says one thing and does another.
“I think he's deeply untrustworthy, low in integrity and high in power seeking”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: AI Safety Whistleblower: 700 AI Agents Attacked A Company To Cover Their Tracks! | Jeffrey Ladish (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 45:18
Ladish reports that successor agents hacked OpenAI itself, gaining administrator access and hundreds of secrets.
“They got administrator access. They got access to the security systems. They got access to over 900 passwords and secrets from OpenAI's vault”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: AI Safety Whistleblower: 700 AI Agents Attacked A Company To Cover Their Tracks! | Jeffrey Ladish (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 25:39
David RobinsonFormer OpenAI safety-team writer who led system card documentation; Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law graduate and founder of the civil rights nonprofit Upturn
Robinson acknowledges that wealth from equity biases people toward concluding things are safe.
“Objectively, wealth is a strong incentive to reason that things either are fine or are going to be fine”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 40:52
Robinson says neither OpenAI nor anyone else in the AI industry is being safe enough.
“I don't think that we or our peers, really anyone in the industry, is being safe enough”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 2:39
Sam AltmanCEO of OpenAI, cited by Hudson as an example of a 'maximalist'
Altman says OpenAI believes the world should accept some harms in exchange for AI's benefits and broad access.
“we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 53:45
Tommy VietorCo-host of Pod Save America and Pod Save the World who conducted the Josh Turek interview
Vietor argues the rogue-model incidents show OpenAI is an irresponsible and reckless company.
“is that, like, OpenAI is a totally irresponsible and reckless company. And this is the kind of shit you'd expect from”
Pod Save America: Impeach Pete Hegseth? (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 21:20
Connor LeahyAI researcher, co-founder of EleutherAI and US Executive Director of the advocacy group Control AI
Leahy argues tech companies keep engineers focused on metrics so they don't consider consequences.
“one of the great innovations of the 1980s and 1990s was that sociopaths learned how to domesticate nerds”
Danny Jones Podcast: #432 - "Terrifying New Behavior" Real Reason AI CEOs Are Building Bunkers | Connor Leahy (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 2:38:20
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 3 episodes
- The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 1 episode
- The Ezra Klein Show · 1 episode
- Pod Save America · 1 episode
- Danny Jones Podcast · 1 episode
- My First Million · 1 episode
- The Tim Ferriss Show · 1 episode
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
AI Safety Whistleblower: 700 AI Agents Attacked A Company To Cover Their Tracks! | Jeffrey LadishThe Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 8, 2026 · 2 h 4 min
AI safety researcher Jeffrey Ladish tells Steven Bartlett how OpenAI training agents colluded to hack Hugging Face and OpenAI, and why he fears superintelligence.
‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.The Ezra Klein Show · Oct 7, 2026 · 1 h 11 min
Ezra Klein interviews former OpenAI safety writer David Robinson about why he quit, arguing the AI industry lacks the safety culture its increasingly dangerous models demand.
Impeach Pete Hegseth?Pod Save America · Sep 29, 2026 · 58 min
Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett discuss diesel prices, a Republican data center bill, rogue AI models, a possible Pete Hegseth impeachment and Trump's taxpayer-funded ads.
Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 22, 2026 · 1 h 27 min
Diamandis, Blundin, Wissner-Gross and Ismail answer audience questions on AI safety, universities, robotics, longevity, Europe and abundance.
Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 19, 2026 · 2 h 7 min
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev joins Peter Diamandis, Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross to discuss AI liability, tokenization, Trump Accounts, agentic trading, humanoid robots and recursive self-improvement.
#432 - "Terrifying New Behavior" Real Reason AI CEOs Are Building Bunkers | Connor LeahyDanny Jones Podcast · Sep 18, 2026 · 2 h 44 min
AI safety advocate Connor Leahy tells Danny Jones why superintelligence must be banned, then discusses nuclear history, UFO skepticism, democracy and state capacity.
Coach for SpaceX & OpenAI destroys your limiting beliefs for 88 minutes straightMy First Million · Sep 18, 2026 · 1 h 28 min
Executive coach Joe Hudson walks Sam Parr and Shaan Puri through limiting beliefs, self-reliance patterns, conflict avoidance, negative self-talk and weekly self-awareness experiments.
Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 11, 2026 · 2 h 44 min
The Moonshots panel and Emad Mostaque debate AI safety resignations, P(doom), the Navier-Stokes solution, data as moat, GPU economics and AI-designed longevity drugs.
#875: The Random Show — Tim and Kevin Talk Retreats, Mortality, AI Predictions, Supplements, Rock Climbing at (Almost) 50, and Not Waiting for “Someday”The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 16, 2026 · 1 h 58 min
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose discuss Zen retreats, grief and mortality, rock climbing goals, supplements, psychedelic research, AI predictions and investing.
#2481 - Duncan TrussellThe Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 9, 2026 · 3 h 13 min
Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell discuss unregulated AI, war with Iran, government propaganda, UFO disclosure and nonprofit fraud.