Taylor Lorenz clashes over whether a16z secretly funded an AI whistleblower's PR push
austinc3301 · x · 2026-09-25
A debate broke out over AI safety figure Nate Soares engaging a PR firm after going public as a whistleblower. Taylor Lorenz argues that if a16z had secretly paid an expensive comms agency to push a "whistleblower" across the media, that would be a major story. Austinc3301 counters that (a) the PR firm was engaged only after he blew the whistle, (b) it apparently produced no reporting, and (c) there's no precedent for what transparent disclosure would even look like here.
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