e/acc claims Doomers wield 'dark money' as Hossenfelder says she was offered cash to scare people off AI
nptacek · x · 2026-09-06
@beffjezos amplified physicist Sabine Hossenfelder's claim that she was offered money to scare the public about AI — and that she's 'not the only one' — using it to allege that AI Doomers have a large pool of dark money sloshing around to stoke fear, escalating the funding-motives fight between e/acc and AI safety camps.
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