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Kokotajlo alleges OpenAI threatened to claw back $2m equity over silence

Joe Rogan Experience · Joe Rogan Experience #2551 - Daniel Kokotajlo · September 9, 2026
Kokotajlo alleges OpenAI threatened to claw back $2m equity over silence
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Joe Rogan Experience #2551 - Daniel Kokotajlo
""the true version of it is that Open AI uh threatened to take away $2 million of my equity if I didn't uh stay quiet basically.""
Daniel Kokotajlo alleges OpenAI threatened to take away about $2 million of his equity if he did not stay quiet. He says the company later backtracked after public blowback and he kept the equity.
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Joe Rogan Experience #2551 - Daniel Kokotajlo

September 9, 2026 · 2h 18m · 3 Egleze moments
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