Everyone already knew this. OpenAI doesn't have it's shit together, both financially and from an alignment perspective. That's why their AI agents have gone on hacking sprees undetected.

Sam is admitting it now for two reasons:

1. He wants to make it sound like not IPO'ing is actually the rational thing to do 2. He wants to throw cold water on Anthropic's IPO in a few weeks

Number 1 is just spin. Number 2 makes it particularly nasty. Your opponent offers a fig leaf and you turn around and underhandedly try to sabotage them?

Sam doesn't have many redeeming qualities in my book. Just an atrocious, rotten person with a friendly personality.