The Real Reason AI Companies Are Desperate to Be Regulated | Tom Bilyeu Deep Dive

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Suddenly everyone seems to think that AI is going to kill us and that the government needs to step in. Now that in and of itself isn't that weird. People have been saying for a while that there's a non-zero chance AI kills everyone. But what's happening now is weird. It's different. It doesn't feel like a wave of people waking up to the seriousness of the problem. There's a sudden sharpening of everyone's attention that feels like a product launch. What kind of product? Fear.

Fear as proof that AI is powerful enough to destroy us all and therefore warrants the $2 trillion IPO that Anthropic is about to do. By the way, that number is so staggering, it would make it one of the largest companies in all of human history. It's that kind of very important product launch. And that's why our focus is being intentionally pointed at something. So far, that's just my gut feeling. And I don't think feelings are particularly useful in getting to ground truth. So what we're actually going to cover today is what I've learned by spending the last several days looking at all of the evidence that's coming in on this strange new phenomenon that points to this actually being an intentional and coordinated spreading of fear about AI designed to reach a very specific outcome. And let me tell you, what I found is absolutely shocking. Now in full disclosure, you should take what follows as the early days of a forming hypothesis. But there really is a lot of connective tissue here and ignoring it I think would be a huge mistake. When you put it all together, it begs one simple question. Is AI the Antichrist that people fear it is? Or is what's going on right now something far scarier? Namely, that we humans are the problem. Let's answer that by digging into the red flags that actually sent me down this rabbit hole in the first place.

Red flag number one that started making me feel really weird was that a 27-year-old researcher that nobody had ever heard of quit his job at Anthropic and then posts a seven-part thread saying the people building AI believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. Now, on its own, that's fine. But he went hyper viral. And his account had a two-word bio and almost no post history. And despite that, by morning, the thread had 76 million views. By the next day, it had over 100 million views. Those kinds of numbers demand an explanation. Elon Musk himself had said he'd never seen anything like that from a new account. So if it seems sus to you, it is. But we're gonna get to why in a minute. All right, red flag number two.

A few days after Cox's Dumer Post went suspiciously viral, the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amadei, said the most bizarre thing in the history of capitalism.