Ian Hogarth Forfeited Anthropic Shares to Run UK AI Security Institute — and Deserves More Credit
latticecut · x · 2026-11-06
Journalist Amol Rajan argues Ian Hogarth deserves wider recognition for voluntarily forfeiting his Anthropic shares — a very expensive decision — to set up and run the UK AI Security Institute, where he and Britain are widely praised. A companion deep interview covers AI's real pace of progress, global race dynamics, a significant chance of a huge market crash, and the bullish cases for quantum computing, fusion, and robotics.
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