Investor likens Anthropic's AI discourse to the Heaven's Gate cult
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-03
Investor Stewart Alsop III quipped that watching Anthropic "hallucinate what they think is a God into the universe" is like watching the HBO documentary on the Heaven's Gate cult. The jab reflects a strand of Silicon Valley skepticism toward frontier labs' quasi-religious safety and consciousness narratives.
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