Beff Jezos slams AI safety establishment: create risks, then sell tokens as insurance
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-28
Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon (Beff Jezos) quotes a critique of the EA/rationalist AI safety establishment: they warned of danger, became billionaires creating it, then hired each other to protect us from it. He argues the frontier business model is to create new adversarial perturbations to complex systems—cyber, and next bio—and sell frontier tokens as insurance against the risks they create.
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