A Subliminal controlled human did the firing obviously.

No Sam just does whatever ChatGPT 4 tells him to do. It was too dangerous to release but those fools did it anyway.

There's no deception it's very straightforward per this 2023 post:

"I mean, what if most of this is just ChatGPT [4 era] running the company..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35281863