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Altimeter's Gerstner blasts researchers voicing AI extinction warnings, questions 'political agenda'
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Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner took aim at heightened warnings from AI researchers, describing this week's discourse surrounding the technology's ability to cause human extinction as detached from reality.
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- I don't think we've invested this much time and energy in safety before a new technology in my 25 years in Silicon Valley," Gerstner said
- Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner took aim at heightened warnings from AI researchers, describing this week's discourse surrounding the technology's ability to cause human extinction as detached
- What I didn't like this week is these hyperbolic scare tactics, which I think are hiding behind a political agenda," Gerstner told CNBC's "Halftime Report" on Friday
Summary
"What I didn't like this week is these hyperbolic scare tactics, which I think are hiding behind a political agenda," Gerstner told CNBC's "Halftime Report" on Friday. Gerstner's firm is an investor in both Anthropic and chief competitor OpenAI, as well as other notable artificial intelligence companies like enterprise search startup Glean and software and data analytics vendor Databricks. His comments came after a researcher quit his job at Anthropic earlier this week and, in a post on X, accused AI companies of "gambling with our lives" in the race towards superintelligence. "I don't think we've invested this much time and energy in safety before a new technology in my 25 years in Silicon Valley," Gerstner said.