Kirsten noted that Musk has made plenty of misleading statements of his own and that trust isn’t just an issue for Altman.

“This is a fundamental question [for] a lot of tech journalists, policymakers, and more and more consumers, about all the AI labs,” she said. “It’s really come down to trust, because we don’t have the insight, necessarily — these are all privately held companies; there’s a lot behind the veil still.”

Anthony Ha: [The end of the trial] led to this really provocative headline from one of our writers, Tim Fernholz, [that] just says, “Who trusts Sam Altman?” Does anyone want to take a stab at answering this?

Kirsten Korosec: Yeah, Anthony, I’m going to throw it right back to you. Do you trust Sam Altman?