A user accuses AI companies of pursuing their own “machine god”

A user portrays OpenAI’s origins as a reaction to Google’s purchase of DeepMind, alleging that Musk and Thiel feared Google would control a “machine god” and wanted their own. A follow-up reply extends that critique to people who left OpenAI for Anthropic, arguing that they believed they were the right people to build it instead. The user also accuses these companies of assembling people from what they call “doomer cults,” naming effective altruism, longtermism and rationalism.