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Steve Mollman

Elon Musk responds with ‘yes’ after Sam Altman says anti-Semitism is worse than he thought, ‘particularly on the American left’

(Credit: From left: Slaven Vlasic—Getty Images/The New York Times; Nordin Catic—Getty Images/The Cambridge Union)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Tesla boss Elon Musk exchanged plenty of barbs over the past year regarding artificial intelligence. But on Friday, Musk expressed agreement with Altman’s assessment of something quite different: anti-Semitism. 

This week, Harvard president Claudine Gay and other university leaders were grilled on Capitol Hill on how their institutions had responded to anti-Semitism, against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war. They faced backlash from lawmakers and the White House over their carefully worded responses, and later followed up with stronger condemnation of hate speech against Jewish students.

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