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Morning Edition · Sunday, June 28, 2026Published at 7:02 AM EDT · New York
A Venture Investor Accuses AI Leaders of Using Doom Warnings as a Fundraising Tool
Chamath Palihapitiya's claim that warnings about existential risk lined up with funding rounds is unproven, but it reflects a genuine shift in how the market interprets safety rhetoric.
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya accused OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei of following a recurring strategy in which warnings about existential AI risk lined up with fundraising, according to a social-media account of…
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