Viral jab at frontier labs: 'too dangerous for anyone else to own, but we take all credit cards'
prateekj · x · 2026-09-10
A widely shared post skewers the double stance of frontier AI labs: claiming the technology is "too dangerous and going to kill everyone, so no one else can own it" while simultaneously accepting "payments from anyone with a credit card." The quoter says he's never seen such commitment to making money regardless of consequences — and wants to buy more stock in the company. A classic critique of the gap between lab safety rhetoric and commercial expansion.
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