Despite not publicly moving away from what has been said about Sam*

Jessica Livingston's personal stake in OpenAI is maybe at most 0.1% or less and Paul Graham's, afaik, is 0.

So the bias doesn't seem as large as OP thinks

*https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2041366050693173393

And "toughness, adaptability, and determination" >>> "ambition", frankly