Palantir CTO Slams Effective Altruism as Masad Questions Timing of Huang Controversy
BrettKrieger12 · x · 2026-11-12
A thread combining Amjad Masad's suspicion that the resurfaced Huang story is geopolitically timed — asking who benefits if the leading champion of open models is taken out, citing midterms and upcoming IPOs — and Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar's long-form Free Press essay arguing effective altruism secretly drives AI safety discourse to restrict access to AI.
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