French commentator: AI safety rhetoric masks financial panic ahead of lab IPOs
GeorgiaChal · x · 2026-09-13
In a thread forwarded by @GeorgiaChal, French commentator @BetterCallMedhi argues that Silicon Valley lab leaders suddenly calling for an AI pause while seeking antitrust exemptions in the name of safety amounts to 'the biggest tech manipulation of our era.' His claim: the pseudo-ethical spectacle masks concrete financial panic over billions sunk into supercomputers with fading returns, and fear of exposing those losses in upcoming IPO filings.
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