trumps former AI and crypto czar just called anthropic "corporate schizophrenia" on all-in
david sacks, this week:
"You have current leadership in the company saying that there's a greater than 10% chance of causing human extinction... How do you IPO with your own management saying that?"
"You've got Dario putting out this essay saying, we need to pace the frontier, days before they launch Claude 5.5 and set a new frontier"
"At a minimum, it's hypocritical, but maybe it's even worse than that"
he's not the only one this week
jensen huang on the ezra klein show, sept 23: if a lab cant contain its models, "we have to shut the labs down"
and polymarket still has an anthropic IPO by end of year at 76%
to be fair, sacks has a point on timing. "we must pace the frontier" dropped sept 12. opus 5.5 shipped sept 22. ten days
but heres what he skipped
every IPO filing on earth has a "risk factors" section that reads like a doomsday cult. every token whitepaper i ever read had one too. warning people about what you sell and then selling it isnt schizophrenia. its disclosure
the labs that should scare you are the ones building the same thing with no warnings at all
personally, i spent years in crypto watching founders who never mentioned a single risk. those were the ones that went to zero
so who do you trust more here, the lab that says its product might be dangerous, or the people telling you it definitely isnt?