# Altman and Brockman Chose a Very Specific Room for Their Performance of Normalcy

- slug: altman-and-brockman-chose-a-very-specific-room-for-their-performance-of-normalcy
- date: 2026-04-21
- category: Artificial Intelligence

One week before every OpenAI founding email becomes evidence in court, Altman and Brockman spent two hours on a podcast telling a story about the beginning. The word trust does not appear in the transcript.

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