OpenAI CEO Sam Altman late Tuesday denied allegations in a lawsuit filed by his sister this week accusing the tech billionaire of repeated sexual abuse.
The federal lawsuit, filed within the US Jap District of Missouri on Monday, alleges that the abuse happened on the household’s dwelling in Clayton, Missouri – beginning when Ann Altman, who goes by Annie, was 3 and Sam was 12.
Within the submitting, Annie claims the abuse happened “several times per week,” starting with oral intercourse and later penetration.
The lawsuit claims that “as a direct and proximate result of the foregoing acts of sexual assault,” the plaintiff has skilled “severe emotional distress, mental anguish, and depression, which is expected to continue into the future.”
She is in search of a jury trial and damages in extra of $75,000.
Annie has made public sexual abuse allegations in opposition to Sam and their brother, Jack Altman, up to now. In a 2021 put up on X, she stated she “experienced sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, financial, and technological abuse” from her siblings.
Her lawyer didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
On Tuesday night time, Sam posted a joint assertion together with his mom, Connie, and his brothers Jack and Max denying the allegations made within the swimsuit.
“Annie has made deeply hurtful and entirely untrue claims about our family, and especially Sam,” the assertion stated. “We’ve chosen not to respond publicly, out of respect for her privacy and our own. However, she has now taken legal action against Sam, and we feel we have no choice but to address this.”
The household staunchly denied the entire allegations made within the lawsuit and claimed Annie faces “mental health challenges” and “refuses conventional treatment and lashes out at family members who are genuinely trying to help.”
Sam, his mom and brothers claimed they’ve paid Annie’s payments, lined her lease, helped her discover job alternatives, tried to get her medical assist and supplied to purchase her a home by a belief.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has soared in reputation because the launch of its AI chatbot ChatGPT – which Annie has beforehand claimed Sam “shadowbanned” her from utilizing, in accordance with the household’s assertion.
The corporate was most just lately valued at $157 billion after a $6.6 billion funding spherical in October – with backers like Microsoft and Nvidia.
In November 2023, OpenAI’s board ousted Altman from his position as chief govt, however he was quickly reinstated due to investor help.
Altman can also be at present embroiled in a authorized battle with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI who minimize ties with the agency in 2018.
The SpaceX CEO is attempting to maintain Altman from turning OpenAI right into a for-profit firm. He initially slapped Altman with a lawsuit in March, however withdrew the criticism filed in a San Francisco state court docket and refiled it in a federal court docket.
OpenAI has claimed that Musk “not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit” construction for the agency when he was nonetheless concerned with the corporate in 2017.
