If AI Is Dangerous, Why Should Pensions Fund It? Questioning the OpenAI/Anthropic Premium
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-20
The author highlights a contradiction: Anthropic warns its AI could destroy the world, OpenAI implies rivals moving faster is the bigger danger, yet Wall Street upgrades their credit ratings to investment grade so pension funds can bankroll them. Core question: with open models rapidly closing the frontier gap, what justifies the OpenAI/Anthropic premium?
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