James Douma: Anthropic may prove its own AI fears justified by building the superintelligence it fears
jamesdouma · x · 2026-11-10
James Douma highlights an irony-maximizing outcome he isn't looking forward to: Anthropic, which has publicly voiced fears about superintelligence, could end up proving those fears justified by building the very superintelligence it fears.
A pointed one-liner on the tension inside safety-focused labs that build frontier models anyway.
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