Nic Carter challenges Anthropic's 'Aligned Machine God' belief: how would getting there first even work?
examachine · x · 2026-09-10
Crypto analyst Nic Carter argues Anthropic employees sincerely believe they alone can build the Aligned Machine God — not cynical fear-marketing for an IPO, but a conviction they are the machine's chosen people. He presses on the logic: would misaligned models cease to exist after RSI? How does arriving first yield a permanent monopoly? Do they think open-weight models will never近 the frontier again, that only one firm can build RSI, or that every other model gets crowded out? A quoted tweet adds the standard rebuttal: OpenAI staff haven't internalized the stakes, while Anthropic understands the risk but feels locked in a race — believing no one else will act responsibly.
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