Sincere or self-serving? Debunking the 'AI doom is regulatory capture' theory
jungofthewon · x · 2026-09-15
- Paul Gu pushes back on the "AI doom as a regulatory-capture money scheme" theory: while he disagrees with the safety/EA community on many key questions and thinks they live in a bubble, he doesn't doubt their sincerity—many worked in the field long before money or status existed there.
- jungofthewon adds a telling counterexample: brilliant researchers who could have been extremely early at OpenAI or Anthropic—now rich and famous—never joined precisely because they anticipated this moment, undercutting the profit motive explanation.
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