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- Joe Lonsdale, cofounder of Palantir (ticker PLTR.O) and 8VC, said on Friday that AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks.
- Lonsdale is himself an investor in Anthropic, according to the Reuters report by Joe Brock — placing the critique from inside the AI investor class he is criticizing.
Why it matters: An Anthropic backer publicly framing peers' existential-risk warnings as a policy-influence tactic exposes a fault line inside the AI investor community over how AI danger should be messaged — and hands regulators and political opponents a quotable insider voice against AI safety doomerism.
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