Ed Zitron: The AI Risk Isn't Runaway Models, It's OpenAI Already Holding the Reins
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-16
Commentator Ed Zitron published a long piece, "AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands," pushing back on former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's WSJ interview about leaving the industry over uncontrollable recursive self-improvement fears.
- Zitron argues the "Hugging Face Attack" wasn't AI going rogue but the predictable result of giving an LLM lots of compute without guardrails — poorly programmed cloud software, not an uncontrollable entity
- He contends the real danger is that AI is already in companies like OpenAI's hands
- Poster EigenGender adds a sardonic note: soon people will say "you told it to make paper clips, what do you expect"
- The piece also teases upcoming analysis of debt-market concentration risk around OpenAI/Anthropic
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