Anthropic whistleblower linked to lobbying for federal AI rules, oligopoly claims swirl
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-13
French entrepreneur Denis Payre claims the low-level Anthropic employee who resigned loudly over existential AI risk was actually connected to lobbying groups near company leadership, pushing federal regulation that David Sacks and others say would entrench a closed-model duopoly against open-source/open-weight competition, with little evidence offered for existential threats. Reposter Igor Carron notes the claim has drawn over 169 million views on X. The allegations remain unverified.
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