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An essay rebuts the idea that AI risk warnings are a corporate plot
The blog Astral Codex Ten argues that warnings about extreme risks are not a plot to lift valuations or capture regulation. It is an opinion piece.
On 15 October, the blog Astral Codex Ten published an opinion essay against the idea that Anthropic's or OpenAI's warnings about extreme risks are a ploy: to hype the product, distract from present harms or capture regulation.
It makes three arguments. Experts with no company ties are just as worried; it cites a 2024 survey of 1,580 researchers, and Hinton and Bengio. Several executives gave similar warnings before their companies existed. And the supposed plot would be clumsy: according to the text, after the call to pace the frontier, Anthropic's and OpenAI's value in cryptocurrency futures fell 4.57% and 13.42%.
It is a partisan text: the figures are the essay's own and we have not checked them.
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- AI Safety Is Not A Corporate PlotAccessed 19 October 2026 · Image: Astral Codex Ten
