Dark Money Behind the AI Panic: Wes Roth Traces Funding From Anthropic Resignation to Superintelligence Ban Bill
Wes Roth · youtube · 2026-09-10
Wes Roth's long video maps the funding and organizational web behind the "AI panic":
- Resignation: Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned, saying both OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward self-improving superintelligence; the post went viral and was covered by WSJ.
- Funding chain: The video links Survival and Flourishing Fund grant records, the AI Futures Project (Kokotajlo et al.), creator grants, media funding allegations (Effort/Tarbell), and Newspeak House fellowships, arguing doomer narratives have organized "dark money" backing.
- Legislation: Connects Anthropic's original $124M backing by Jaan Tallinn and Dustin Moskovitz to the Sanders–Casar bill banning artificial superintelligence and pausing advanced AI development.
- Thesis: "They ALL lied" — the interest structure behind AI doom narratives deserves scrutiny.
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