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Developing story · 3 episodes · 24 Sept to 5 Oct

AI Risk Hype and Corporate Scrutiny Saga

The saga chronicles escalating AI risk warnings from industry leaders, expert assessments of existential threats, and corporate responses to regulatory scrutiny. It now culminates in Bill Ackman's challenge to Anthropic's risk disclosure, raising questions about transparency ahead of the company's public filing.

  1. Senator Bernie Moreno calls Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei 'alarmist' in letter

    Republican Senator Bernie Moreno sent a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, accusing him of taking an "alarmist approach" to artificial intelligence. Moreno, who referred to the technology as…

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  2. Bill Ackman questions Anthropic’s S-1 risk disclosure on AI extinction chance

    Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, criticized Anthropic’s draft S-1 filing on X, questioning why a 10% chance of AI causing human extinction—cited by the company’s own…

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  3. DEY. PR firm worked for ex-anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon

    DEY. Ideas + Influence booked interviews for Jacob Coxon on Sept. 9 after his resignation and warning that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade. The PR firm, described by Pirate Wires as a…

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Who and what
AnthropicOpenAIPershing Square Capital ManagementSpace Exploration Technologies Corp.DEY. Ideas + InfluenceMachine Intelligence Research InstituteStanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial IntelligenceStanford MedicineEvan HubingerSam AltmanDemis HassabisJacob Coxon