Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪

The bubble isn’t real

[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

no

[Goyo @goyo045]

2nd Phase

#ONEPIECE

[Iris ˙⋆✮ @boofpegasus]

“yo have you heard the new sbr outro”

the outro:

[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

Wow absolutely nobody saw this coming

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

JUST IN: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly exaggerated AI security threats to push the government to protect their market position

[spor @sporadica]

lol you’re telling me these killer agent swarms that Dario is scared will create a permanent botnet and take down the Internet…can just be asked not to go on the Internet and they’ll listen?????

i’m gonna laugh my ass off, what are we doing here

[Brian Chau @brianchau57]

Anthropic and Irregular went on a press tour with literally apocalyptic language. ROGUE AGENTS. SWARMS. AI DOOM.

But in reality, they told the models to conduct cyberattacks, and that's what the models did.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all had security incidents that trace back to IRREGULAR: an evaluator tied into the same network that funded Jacob Coxon and invested early in Anthropic.

you must definitely read this:

[Futurist @futuristbench]

Anthropic’s Head of Personality Alignment, Amanda Askell, argued that discrimination against white students “may be desirable” as a way of correcting historical injustice.

This is coming from one of the most prominent people working on AI alignment.

Let that sink in.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.

What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.

Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.

It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.

Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.

It starts with METR.

Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.

He proposes METR for this purpose.

But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.

Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.

And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.

This stock was worth $500 million early last year.

It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.

METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.

Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.

But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.

The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all.

The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.

If this were the end of it, that's bad.

But that isn't all.

The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.

The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.

They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.

All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.

As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.

Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.

From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.

This itself is an objective fact.

The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.

But the problem also goes in the other direction:

If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.

Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.

Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.

They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.

And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.

What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.

The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.

And that feedback loop is winning.

That's what Jacob Coxon is.

China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.

America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.

Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.

Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.

It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.

Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.

Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.

Congress must investigate.

Evidence and Github in next post.

Then some supplementary figures.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

> be anthropic
> say ai might take over internet
> researchers: “it might kill humans.”
> dario: “we need independent evaluators”
> choose metr
> metr gets funded by the same network funding anthropic
> which also funds ai safety orgs
> which also funds doom research
> which also funds policy work
> which also holds major wealth linked to anthropic
> which also funds tarbell
> tarbell pushes doom into time, the verge, science, la times, etc.

> anthropic makes more money
> network gets richer
> more fund goes into ai doom
> ai doom pushes more regulation
> regulation favors “responsible” frontier labs
> anthropic gets more power
> repeat

the doom funds the network → the network amplifies the doom → anthropic benefits from both

[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

We’re really going to lose this race aren’t we

[Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer]

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.

2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.

Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.

And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.

What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?

3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.

It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.

4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

@noinconsistency Did you know each zombie drinks 2 billion gallons of drinking water every time they spawn in

[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

@NFL @nflnetwork @NFLPlus

[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

@deconstract @WilliamArnolds4 @alib4b9 @SS6_Fineto I think you’re misunderstanding, the omen attack that Imu sent towards Loki was specifically set to detonate as soon as it made physical contact with something. Imu wouldn’t block the combined attack with that, he would just block it with a flame or his hands

[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

@deconstract @WilliamArnolds4 @alib4b9 @SS6_Fineto Jimbei didn’t “stop” an attack he triggered a bomb that was going to explode the moment it made impact with anything

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@Kaelan47

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@HaterReport

[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

@devataymoor @fulyanime How…?

[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

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[Rhett Robin 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @Rhett_Robin_]

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