VC: You can't get hired at a frontier lab without believing AI could kill us all
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-13
Investor Stewart Alsop III argues that getting a job at a frontier AI lab requires implicitly believing the tech could kill us all — a self-selection for eschatology that has existed since the organization was a nonprofit in 2015. He claims this institutional pattern is "far more dangerous than AI" itself. A pointed critique of AI safety culture and hiring incentives at frontier labs.
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