Ronan Farrow's reporting suggests Sam Altman and his crew at OpenAI privately discussed leveraging a global arms race to make money by playing world powers like China and Russia against each other.

Sam Altman constantly compares the development of AI to the Manhattan Project.

In November 2024, OpenAI published a document titled "OpenAI's infrastructure blueprint for the US" to justify its data center buildout and spending, invoking Russia and China as geopolitical rivals.

Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow has released a devastating exposé into Sam Altman.

In 2018, Dario Amodei wrote that 'everything was a rotating set of schemes to raise money' in reference to Sam Altman and other OpenAI founders.

In May 2015, Sam Altman emailed Elon Musk stating, "I think we need a Manhattan Project for AI."