Yudkowsky: We didn't cash out on the AI boom because we truly predicted doom
ESYudkowsky · x · 2026-09-24
Eliezer Yudkowsky, founder of MIRI, pushes back on accusations that AI-safety skeptics are in it for the money. He argues they could have made far more by riding the AI boom, but genuinely believed humanity would die soon from AI. He takes a jab at AI labs as the actual profit-seekers, and quips that so far they indeed haven't profited.
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