The AI Scare
A 27-year-old researcher's resignation thread passed 170 million views; Anthropic's CEO said he would accept oversight by “the right combination of governments”; the President called AI doom a “HOAX”; and a viral podcast mapped one billionaire's checkbook onto the lab, the activists and the referee. This Special Report grades nine AI-danger claims against the record, traces the money behind the safety movement, checks claim by claim the allegation that the evaluator METR is financed by Dustin Moskovitz, and explains why regulatory capture is being attempted and why the “world government” idea frightens people. The finding is uncomfortable for both sides: capture is being attempted from more than one direction, the sharpest funding allegation does not survive the documents, and several dangers the capture story calls marketing are, on the evidence, real. Thirty pages, 120 sources.
