Kevin Bass

Interested in tech, AI, public health, healthcare — Kicked out of TTU med for truth-telling — I want Texas Tech to tell the truth about what it did

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying. I believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic. I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities. Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance.

Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere "half-truth": an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized. Why did I see it in terms of weaponization? Because I was biased: I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith.

Didn't the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good? If they didn't, they were ignorant. If they did, they were evil. It was that simple. This meant that any legitimate criticisms would just be dismissed, as if bouncing off of an impenetrable bulletproof shield.

This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn't understood what I had been judging.

I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn't human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent "unprofessional behavior", which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me. They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school's own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment.

But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, "Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood." I wasn't. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn't imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind.

When I was dismissed, I was broken. But I had help from friends who helped me understand what happened. And I came to realize that a hysteria had overtaken the left. I spent a lot of time reading about show trials, about witch trials, and so on. I also connected with people who had experienced similar things and came to realize that something similar had happened to hundreds of physicians around the country. My story wasn't unique. It was all the same story over and over again.

I cannot believe the person I once was. I cannot believe that I could exist like that. I still don't understand how I could be like that, or how millions of people in this country could continue being like that. It disturbs me greatly.

One thing I know is that whatever this thing is that is driving people crazy needs to be destroyed. It is hostile to civilization and to our humanity. It causes us to dehumanize each other and try to destroy each other. It is the very same monstrous thing that I once attributed to conservatives. But it had been inside me, and I could now see it inside others. This is something I still grapple with.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Republican legislators care about whether American AI can compete strongly against China's

AI legislation proposed by Democrats is entirely directed at crippling American AI

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Moskowitz and Karnofsky founded Open Philanthropy, the largest funder of AI doom.

They are *also* investors in Anthropic.

OP has given $312M in grants for 476 publications, influencing Congressional reports.

OP's parent org funded Jacob Coxon, who did an AI doom media blitz.

Overall, OP has given more than $1B to promote AI doom -- larger by more by an order of magnitude than the second largest funder.

If successful in manipulating public and Congressional opinion, this agenda could lead to regulatory capture of the AI industry and a monopoly by Anthropic and other AI giants.

The idea is this.

This industry must be regulated, and only the top AI companies can get it right. Insurmountable barriers might be placed to prevent competitors from entering the space.

Moskowitz and Karnofsky would benefit handsomely, and so would Anthropic employees and other investors.

Moskowitz and Karnofsky invested in Anthropic, but they also invested in AI Doom.

AI Doom is an investment that could pay off big.

AI Doom is Big Business.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Here is a video of Hasan Piker electrocuting his dog to keep him from walking out of frame and failing as a prop

Hasan is a disgusting person

He is a communist and a big fan of DSA

These people are running for office and want to rule you

Vote

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

@Rothmus 😂

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

The Coxon psyop was a decade and more than a billion dollars in the making.

Here's the story.

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is the grant-providing vehicle of Dustin Moskowitz.

CG is the overwhelmingly foremost funder of AI alarmism, with more than $1B in grants and $1B committed for 2026.

Moskowitz, who founded and runs Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving, led Anthropic's Series A in 2021.

Holden Karnofsky co-founded Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving and took a board seat at OpenAI when Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving gave it $30M in 2017.

Karnofsky is married to Anthropic's president Daniela Amodei.

He then joined Anthropic in January 2025.

Coxon, who started the viral thread, received a scholarship from Good Ventures, which is the foundation that funds Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving.

He coordinated his message ahead of time with the Wall Street Journal, which published its exclusive on him before he posted on X.

Coxon spent three years pretraining at OpenAI, the company that took $30M from Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving.

The funder of the AI alarmist ecosystem Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving, in other words, is also an owner of Anthropic, and his organization is deeply entangled with both OpenAI and Anthropic. Anthropic's researchers in turn amplified Coxon.

The same people who own the organizations that advocate for regulation, in other words, are those who own the companies that would dominate the market under that regulatory regime, which would prevent competitors from entering the market.

And this work all started ten years ago, right when these companies were founded, paving the way.

It's diabolically brilliant.

Win at the competition, then deploy activists to help you regulate the market and ensure your monopoly.

You have to respect the planning, manipulation, and foresight this took.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@wholemars I’d like to apologize to Dustin Moskowitz for calling him a “retard”. That was wrong.

What I meant to say is that he is a pompous idiot whose his head is so far up his own ass that he is legally blind.

I wish him the best and hope that someday we can be friends.

[Sponko @sponkostonko]

seriously time to go to war against the doomers. not because we disagree on “safety,” but because they are complicit in frontrunning a centralized dictatorship system for a small, diabolical cabal of power hungry whores that just want to control everything

if we keep giving them ground by always being defensive, they will eventually get what they want

raze anthropic

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

@brianchau57 Wow

[Brian Chau @brianchau57]

This was an deliberately deceptive recruiting tool

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

@Theo_TJ_Jordan This is how power works

[Theo Jordan @Theo_TJ_Jordan]

How much agenda has moved this way? 🎬😵‍💫

[DeltaSignal @AITrailblazerQ]

⇋ The $1B Regulatory Moat: How Philanthropy Was Weaponized to Monopolize AI

The viral AI doom threads and media panics aren't organic grass-roots activism-they are the output of a 10-year, $1 billion capital allocation playbook.

Here is how philanthropic regulatory capture works:

1. Fund the Ecosystem ($1B+):

Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving spends $1B+ seeding think tanks, journalism fellowships, pollsters, and Congressional fellows.

2. Buy the Incumbents:

Lead Series A funding in Anthropic and drop $30M into OpenAI while holding board seats and key executive positions.

3. Manufacture the Panic:

Fund independent "scholars," coordinate exclusives with mainstream media (WSJ), and amplify doom narratives through incestuous research networks.

4. Lock the Moat:

Demand mandatory government licensing, compute caps, and safety audits under the guise of "protection"-effectively banning open-source competitors who can't pay the compliance tax.

They didn't just build the AI labs; they built the "safety" apparatus to ensure nobody else can compete with them.
It’s not public safety-it's market cartelization disguised as virtue.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

If you thought the lies that the public health establishment told during the COVID pandemic were bad, just know that the AI safetyists are more sophisticated and even more morally bankrupt

Do not fall for it

[Tom Howard @_TomHoward]

EA safetyists got very comfortable with weaponized sociopathy.

Lying to everyone is fine if the ends justify the means.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

OpenAI and Anthropic keep lab leaking their own models and yelling: "pandemic! -- please let us be in charge of lockdowns!"

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

@ptremblay If you have a Claude Code subscription, use parallel Fable sessions to resteer OpenAI models running /goal. Fable has good broad judgment, OpenAI models have autism.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Remember how Fauci was entangled with mRNA vaccines and promoted COVID hysteria.

Well, the same people who created the orgs pushing AI doomerism -- which would create regulatory capture by leading AI companies -- are investors in Anthropic.

Republicans falling for it again.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Behind the viral Coxon story is a tightly financially entangled regulatory capture cartel. The story is almost too clean to beelieved.

Almost everyone involved in the past couple of weeks leading up to the viral Coxon story are paid for by investors in Anthropic.

Good Ventures and Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving is owned by Dustin Moskowitz, who led Anthropic's Series A.

Survival and Flourishing Fund funded others who pumped up the hysteria in parallel. Survival and Flourishing Fund are run by Jaan Tallinn -- an investor in Anthropic.

Then you have amplifiers of Coxon, who are at Anthropic itself.

All of these individuals serve to benefit financially from the doomer hysteria and the regulatory capture that could result in its wake.

Coxon himself is a nepo baby -- he doesn't need the money. He just harvested the virtue signal.

Hence the smug smile while talking to interviewers about humanity's impending extermination.

Nepos gonna nepo.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Fourteen moves in eight days

The psyop to create hysteria to manipulate Congress into regulating AI.

Almost everyone involved is affiliated with Coefficient, Open Philanthropy, Anthropic, and/or OpenAI -- all who serve to benefit financially from creating regulation.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

The Coxon psyop was a decade and more than a billion dollars in the making.

Here's the story.

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is the grant-providing vehicle of Dustin Moskowitz.

CG is the overwhelmingly foremost funder of AI alarmism, with more than $1B in grants and $1B committed for 2026.

Moskowitz, who founded and runs Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving, led Anthropic's Series A in 2021.

Holden Karnofsky co-founded Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving and took a board seat at OpenAI when Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving gave it $30M in 2017.

Karnofsky is married to Anthropic's president Daniela Amodei.

He then joined Anthropic in January 2025.

Coxon, who started the viral thread, received a scholarship from Good Ventures, which is the foundation that funds Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving.

He coordinated his message ahead of time with the Wall Street Journal, which published its exclusive on him before he posted on X.

Coxon spent three years pretraining at OpenAI, the company that took $30M from Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving.

The funder of the AI alarmist ecosystem Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving, in other words, is also an owner of Anthropic, and his organization is deeply entangled with both OpenAI and Anthropic. Anthropic's researchers in turn amplified Coxon.

The same people who own the organizations that advocate for regulation, in other words, are those who own the companies that would dominate the market under that regulatory regime, which would prevent competitors from entering the market.

And this work all started ten years ago, right when these companies were founded, paving the way.

It's diabolically brilliant.

Win at the competition, then deploy activists to help you regulate the market and ensure your monopoly.

You have to respect the planning, manipulation, and foresight this took.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@TimSweeneyEpic @ParkerThayer I think the groundwork for this psy op (for lack of a better term) has been prepared for a long time. This was just the match that lit the fire.