Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI. He appears in this wiki as the named voice on the receiving end of EO 14409: in a staff Q&A (reported by The Information), he told employees the US government would approve access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer during its preview, and in an internal memo called the arrangement “not our preferred long-term model,” pledging to “work toward a more sustainable approach for future releases” (openai-gpt56-access-restriction).

His stance marks the regulated-party position in the US frontier-release-control story — a frontier-lab CEO publicly signalling friction with a government release gate while complying with it. Canonical OpenAI-as-provider detail lives in ../llm-providers-wiki (openai); this node holds only his governance-relevant role.

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openai · openai-gpt56-access-restriction · eo-14409 · us-ai-policy