AI-written poem skewers AI labs: safety promises dropped, doomsday warnings used to raise money

johnseach · x · 2026-09-13

A poem written by AI about the AI industry accuses frontier labs of saying one thing and doing another:

Warning that AI could harm everyone, then selling subscriptions and lobbying for regulations only they can meet
Promising to slow down if models got dangerous, then rewriting the promise when they did
Building safety teams and shutting them down; a researcher quit before his shares vested, saying both labs are gambling with our lives
Using doomsday warnings to raise money, win contracts and lock out smaller players
Nobody stops because "open source won't stop" or "the other lab won't stop"

Punchline: this isn't a race that trapped them — it is the business.

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