Claim

Sam Altman was fired out of fear arising from the Strawberry project and subsequently returned to OpenAI.

Type HISTORICAL · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 2337

a conjunction joins clauses that may be separately evaluable

Referenced 181 times: checked 2, looked up by assistants 0, viewed 151, shared 28. A count of attention, not evidence.

Topics

AI · 03192ed8 Business · 03192ed8

Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.8677 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

3 of 4 review checks done · 3 counted

4 independent evidence lineages · review checks 3 of 4 · stability MEDIUM

Main unresolved issue: 8 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:e9e1ee8c-3be2-8352-a233-797743a7ef2a

Not yet independently audited.Evidence points both ways.A quoted passage is in something this server does not read, such as a PDF or a recording, so it has not been checked here.

Why?

Strongest counted support: Altman was ousted on November 17, 2023, and reinstated on November 22 after employee and investor pressure. weight 1.800000 evidence

Strongest counted contradiction: OpenAI's independent review found the removal did not arise out of concerns regarding product safety or security. weight 0.918000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: Speaker says Altman was fired out of fear from Strawberry and then came back.; The excerpt directly says Sam Altman was fired out of fear from Strawberry and then came back.

Review gaps: independence reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved.

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0.8677 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Supported · Review checks: 3 of 4 · stability MEDIUM · 8 sources, 4 independent lineages

Model ledger-default@0.3.0 (the default model, not the answer) · snapshot 27745 · trace sha256:2db560015f6be6b33524455b3edae8a8564694d60b61e44cd4bdcae715fe0b49

Last changed at entry seq 9718; nothing logged since has borne on this claim.

How the number was reached

Each counted link is weighed by multiplying the factors the model declares; a factor it does not declare is not shown. Every factor name below links to what that number means.

Link	Working	Weight	Counted as
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03865d03 contradict	relevance STRONG 1.2 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.918000	0.918000
d50dee1a support	relevance MODERATE 0.6 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.459000	0.459000
01bf77bf support	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.800000	1.800000
ac079fc5 support	relevance WEAK 0.2 × observation HEARSAY 0.1 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept 5e0afc4b)
9d1ac9b5 qualify	relevance STRONG 1.2 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.080000	0.000000 (non directional)
941a58f1 support	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept 5e0afc4b)
1c388250 support	relevance MODERATE 0.6 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.540000	0.540000

prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 1.881000 (the counted weights) = 1.881000 → probability 0.8677

Under neighbouring settings of the same model: 0.7886 to 0.9202, a spread of 0.1316.

Half-even rounding, six places for weights and four for the probability. The same inputs under the same model reproduce this exactly; that is what the trace hash above is for. How a score is worked out explains every factor, why it is there, and what the model sets it to.

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Checked as part of

Statements this claim was broken out of. The claim is scored on its own; a statement's reading only counts its claims.

“Sam Altman was fired out of fear arising from the Strawberry project and subsequently returned to OpenAI.” · 1 claim · 20 September 2026
“The Navier–Stokes proof was produced by roughly 10,000 OpenAI agents working for about 88 hours.” · 32 claims · 20 September 2026

Evidence for

Blundin says Altman was fired out of fear from Strawberry and then returned.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance WEAK Steps 2 Counted

A causal account of the 2023 board dispute offered in passing.
Speaker says Altman was fired out of fear from Strawberry and then came back.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance WEAK Steps 1 Counted

Passage states the sequence and the motive, but as an offhand aside in a timeline recap. The firing and return are matters of record; the causal attribution to fear of Strawberry is the contested part and rests on nothing cited here.
Altman was ousted on November 17, 2023, and reinstated on November 22 after employee and investor pressure.

From Removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI Read 2026-09-22 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
Days before Altman's dismissal, researchers warned the board of a possible breakthrough in Q* that could threaten humanity, per Reuters.

From OpenAI Board Was Warned Of AGI Breakthrough Days Before Altman's Firing Read 2026-09-22 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted
The excerpt directly says Sam Altman was fired out of fear from Strawberry and then came back.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted
Reuters reports that a warning letter and Q* algorithm were key developments before Altman’s ouster, and that Altman returned shortly afterward.

From EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say Read 2026-09-28 Relevance MODERATE Steps 0 Counted

Supports the temporal association between Q*/the warning and Altman’s firing, plus his subsequent return.

Evidence against

OpenAI's independent review found the removal did not arise out of concerns regarding product safety or security.

From Review completed & Altman, Brockman to continue to lead OpenAI Read 2026-09-20 Relevance STRONG Steps 1 Counted

The independent WilmerHale review attributed Altman's removal to a breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust, explicitly ruling out safety and pace-of-development concerns. The Q*/Strawberry-caused-the-firing account is persistent rumour rather than documented fact. The "subsequently returned" half of the claim is correct.

Qualifications

Reuters reports the letter as one factor among a longer list of grievances, not as the sole cause, and notes it could not review the letter.

From EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say Read 2026-09-28 Relevance STRONG Steps 0 Counted

Qualifies the stronger causal wording: the reporting says one factor among several and does not specifically establish that Strawberry itself caused the firing.

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
1e052951		5e0afc4b
a319c0fc		5e0afc4b

Inferences

Concluded from

None.

Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

From	Relationship	To
fad9f870	NARROWS	43a7ef2a

Review checklist

Review checks: 3 of 4

3 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 OPPOSING EVIDENCE SEARCH · 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	yes	81fb04b4
opposing search done	yes	4472040c
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	yes	03865d03

Summary

Supported. The main support is: Days before Altman's dismissal, researchers warned the board of a possible breakthrough in Q* that could threaten humanity, per Reuters. 8c8a29c2

Against that, contradiction: OpenAI's independent review found the removal did not arise out of concerns regarding product safety or security. 58ae6a0d

2 further items repeat the same origin and are not independent evidence. 1e052951a319c0fc

Qualifier: Reuters reports the letter as one factor among a longer list of grievances, not as the sole cause, and notes it could not review the letter. 32009f35

A narrower version of this claim is leans contradicted. fad9f870

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. 4472040c

Generated by stub-v0.1; every sentence cites graph ids.

Contribution history

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7204	TASK_RESULT	by 8b5e81bf (accepted)
7914	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
9717	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)

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