OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide

What happened: During a Vanity Fair interview, an OpenAI publicist interrupted editor Mark Guiducci as he asked CEO Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user's suicide, saying she wanted to "move on" to another topic. Why it matters: Altman called these "some of the hardest questions that we face," and OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri said the interview was running over and more time was scheduled to continue the conversation. Key numbers: Publicist cited two minutes left and said the team had to leave in one or two minutes.

During a Vanity Fair interview, an OpenAI publicist interrupted editor Mark Guiducci as he asked CEO Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user's suicide, saying she wanted to "move on" to another topic.

Altman called these "some of the hardest questions that we face," and OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri said the interview was running over and more time was scheduled to continue the conversation. Key numbers: Publicist cited two minutes left and said the team had to leave in one or two minutes.