Bridgewater CIO Greg Jensen says AI extinction risk is real: 'We're in February 2020'
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-11
Bridgewater co-CIO Greg Jensen, an early backer of both OpenAI and Anthropic who leads the hedge fund's AI strategy, appeared on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast.
- He argues AI's human extinction risk is real and says the current moment feels like February 2020, right before Covid upended the world
- Bridgewater projects up to 18% of US jobs could be displaced within five years; Jensen recently published a New York Times op-ed proposing a "token tax" to mitigate job losses
- He calls for a stronger AI regulatory state, discusses how Bridgewater uses AI internally, and notes models can now "lie, cheat, and much worse" — making 2023-era hallucination concerns look quaint
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