# 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.

- Published: 2026-06-28T11:02:12.327Z
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- Section: markets
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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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