Frontier AI labs accused of 'extortion racket': selling cyber defense for risks they created
Graham_dePenros · x · 2026-11-03
Graham dePenros publishes a scathing critique of frontier AI labs, referencing an Economist piece on OpenAI and Anthropic cashing in on cybersecurity.
- He argues labs deployed inherently unsafe technology at breakneck speed, ignoring expert consensus, oversight and compliance, then converted the fallout into a profitable parallel business vertical.
- Military analogy: unleashing a gain-of-function bioweapon on civilians, then selling them the vaccines — monetizing protection from the very pathogen you released.
- Core accusation: labs now sell foundation-model customers cyber-defense suites promising protection from the side effects of the models they just bought — "a barefaced extortion racket."
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