Claim: all 6 contributors to Guardian AI-doomer article funded by AI Doomer donors
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-02
brianchau57 alleges a conflict of interest in a Guardian piece on AI doomers: all 6 participants (including the journalist and publisher) are paid by AI Doomer megadonors, and one cited article — imagining AI killing all humans by the mid-2030s to make room for solar panels and datacenters — was written by AI itself.
Dan Jeffries amplifies it harshly, calling the participants "rationalist dilettantes" and "zombies masquerading as living, breathing humans," and saying the AI debate is "more fake than you can imagine." The claim is the poster's own tally and unverified.
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