Investor slams Anthropic's doom discourse as 'sophisticated grift'
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-14
Investor Stewart Alsop III called out Anthropic's "epistemological and eschatological grift," arguing it made him respect the Trump coin grift more — at least that one is honest, with buyers knowing the risks — while Anthropic's, he claims, is hidden under layers of sophisticated self-delusion even its perpetrators don't see. A pointed entry in the ongoing debate over whether AI safety rhetoric serves commercial motives.
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