Anthropic investor Lonsdale says AI firms stoking fear to sway policy
Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic and co-founder of Palantir, criticized leading AI firms like Anthropic and OpenAI for warning of existential risks from AI. He argued that these efforts amounted to a dangerous attempt to shape public policy and entrench market power for a small number of companies. Lonsdale emphasized the importance of balancing safety concerns with the risk of creating an oligopoly with excessive influence over AI policy.
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