Anthropic and OpenAI spend under 1% of capex on cybersecurity and AI safety, critic says
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-15
AlexTensor highlights a contradiction: Anthropic and OpenAI have called for a pause in AI development and "joint international governance," claiming their technology poses catastrophic risk to civilization — yet each spends less than 1% of capex on cybersecurity and AI safety.
Key arguments:
- No other high-stakes industry (nuclear, pharma, aerospace) would legally survive this safety-spend ratio
- If the labs genuinely believe their products pose uncontrollable dangers, they should stop releasing or selling access to models
- The author argues safety R&D should be increased 100x; selling AI services and conducting AI R&D are separate decisions
Details of the spending breakdown are said to be in the comments. A direct challenge to the gap between frontier labs' risk rhetoric and actual investment.
Related event: Frontier AI Labs Spend Only ~0.1% of Capex on Safety, Analysis Finds(5 posts)→
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