“Sam Altman doesn’t care about AI either. He cares about accumulating power, has been doing so for years, and will be back with another con within three years.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Sam Altman doesn't care about AI; he cares about accumulating power, has been doing so for years, and will be back with another con within three years.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Burst Damage, paragraph 76.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
- assessment wyea-burst-damage-1b1263-a1
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- “within three years”
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
From the speaker
- within three years
Our interpretation
None added.
This claim is not graded on evidence. The record checks that the words are quoted correctly and attributed to the right person, and that the claim is classified correctly.
Current assessment
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
Both AI providers screened this claim on their own and found that public evidence could not settle it. It is recorded and attributed, not scored.
Why it can’t be checked
Each screen gave its own reason:
- About something no public evidence could show, such as a private intention or a counterfactual.
- Rhetoric that commits to nothing testable.
- Evidence
- Not checked
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Not checked against evidence. Two independent screens, one from each provider, both found that evidence could not settle it: one found it rhetoric that commits to nothing testable; the other found it about something no public evidence could show, such as a private intention or a counterfactual.
Limitations
None recorded.
Evidence (0 items)
No evidence was searched for. Both screens found that public evidence could not settle this claim.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Where's Your Ed At, Burst Damage
Sam Altman doesn’t care about AI either. He cares about accumulating power, has been doing so for years, and will be back with another con within three years.
- Where
- paragraph 76
- Published
- 2024-08-05
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-burst-damage-1b1263-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.