If these people are really as certain about AI doom as they claim, imagine Oppenheimer starting a private company, announcing, “By the way, this technology might wipe out humanity,” and then immediately going on a fundraising tour.
He wouldn’t be pitching the next IPO. He’d be sitting in a congressional hearing while the government figured out whether to seize the servers.
Computers don’t just wake up one morning, develop ambition, and decide humanity has become inefficient. A lot of this “AI could destroy civilization” rhetoric feels suspiciously convenient when it also makes your company sound like it possesses the most powerful technology ever created.
And if these agents are already so intelligent and economically unstoppable, why are the companies still coming to public markets asking humans for billions of dollars?
Just turn on the agents, let them trade the stock market, and make a trillion dollars.
What’s stopping them — Jane Street?
Instead, they raise capital while sending their local parrots onto podcasts to explain how the product they’re selling may also end civilization.
Nothing says “existential threat” quite like a Series F
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