Critic Slams Anthropic's 'Doomerism' as Priests Protecting Knowledge Access
GregCook2011 · x · 2026-09-14
In a retweet, @ekpodar accuses Anthropic, Jacob Coxon and Dario Amodei of fear mongering about AI risk, arguing they act like a 'priest class' protecting access to knowledge. He draws an analogy to ancient libraries in Rome, Egypt and China, where priests controlled access — and claims the printing press similarly broke that monopoly, implying today's AI safety rhetoric serves the same gatekeeping function.
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