By Van Badham
Publication Date: 2026-04-10 07:20:00
The Internet joke asks: “What are the seven most terrible words in the English language?” The answer: “Ronan Farrow asked questions about you.”
The investigative journalist published an article in the New Yorker this week about Sam Altman, the billionaire founder and CEO of OpenAI, the company that owns ChatGPT.
Farrow’s new play raises contemporary, larger questions: who has power, who should have it, who absolutely shouldn’t have it… and what we even do when we have it.
OpenAI’s products now span everything from your smartphone to defense contracts to law enforcement. The need for electrical energy is growing in his companies; its data centers spread across the planet; and the labor market impact of its potential to replace jobs portends an industrial disruption for white-collar workers of world-changing proportions.
The commercial dynamism of this company is such that, despite a projected loss of $14 billion in 2026, it…
