Welcome to The Explanation from the BBC World Service.
I'm Katie Razzle and this is The Media Show.
We're here to explain the trends behind the fast-changing media landscape.
This week on The Media Show, we're joined by Ronan Farrow, possibly the world's most famous investigative journalist.
He'll tell us why he's turned his attention to Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI.
The investigation has made waves in Silicon Valley.
We 'll discuss what it reveals and we 'll get a historical perspective on the power of today's tech bros
from the BBC history presenter, Misha Glennie.
This week, The New Yorker published a major investigation into the CEO of OpenAI.
The title poses a question.
Sam Altman may control our future.
Can he be trusted?
It's made waves in Silicon Valley, and the reporters behind it are Andrew Marantz and Ronan Farrow.
Farrow famously won a Pulitzer for his work to expose Harvey Weinstein.
And this latest investigation has taken more than a year and a half and has involved interviews with over 100 people.
He joined us to talk through what he found.
One of the reasons I started on this body of reporting was that I had been in the midst of an earlier investigation
into Elon Musk and the extent to which his powers had become unaccountable in this moment of late-stage capitalism
and complaints about his reliability.
And in the course of that reporting, many of the key figures in AI became sources.