Jason Kwon

person · Chief Strategy Officer, OpenAICredibility: 50%

Why this score? Senior OpenAI executive speaking on the company's behalf about its own safety conduct, including in active litigation where the company is a defendant. Interested party on precisely the questions this desk records, so his statements about OpenAI's internal decision-making are utterances to be checked rather than facts (Principle 12). Set at the neutral 0.5 baseline with no track record yet recorded; hindsight verdicts will move it.

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It is absolutely false to say Chris Lehane was involved with our original referral decision, or that our investigators report to him in any way. It's also completely untrue to say that the people at the center of these challenging decisions do not prioritize safety, or that there are 'political' or 'public relations' factors at play.^?

— Jason Kwon · Sep 2, 2026

Topic: state of ai/chatbot harms

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Context: Untestable from outside. Both the allegation and OpenAI's denial turn on internal records that are not public and have not been through discovery. Altman's April apology established that no referral was made; who decided against it remains contested.