PCAST Co-Chair David Sacks agrees AI developers must stop warning of existential risk if they continue building the technology

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/opinion/ai-dangerous-openai-anthropic.html

@DavidSacks

What did @DavidSacks think "transformative AI" meant? Vibes, essays, SaaS multiples?

This aint no Call-In app. This the Singularity baby.

We tried to warn you for years now but for some ✨unknown✨ reason certain corners of tech treated honest discussion of ASI and its risks as sci-fi "doom trolling"

Better late than never, I spose. Now BUCKLE UP

@DavidSacks You give that question a think?

If all the value is somewhere below where the government has to get involved, then it's here already...

Whoops.

@DavidSacks Big AI Fearmongers -- > "Dario Amodei from Anthropic" (@DarioAmodei)

and "Sam Altman (from OpenAI) (@sama) are dishonest and morally bankrupt..🧐

@DavidSacks they're not trolling, though. and this isn't some grand scheme for regulatory capture. sam wrote this blog post in 2015: https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2, dario is credited on it.

they (correctly) believe ASI is coming and it's a new species more powerful than us.

@DavidSacks @DavidSacks where the jobs @ ??

@DavidSacks the dooming will continue until morale improves

@DavidSacks My strategy analysis !

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@DavidSacks Nobody gives a fuck about data centers. Tired of being stolen from we want lower taxes we want affordable food we want better healthcare. Nobody gives a shit about your data center.

@DavidSacks Freedom with the tools. Accountability for the deeds. We do not need a new regime for the instrument. We need the law we already have, applied where it already belongs: threats, fraud, theft, hacking, conspiracy, violence, and actual harm. Isn't that enough to accelerate?

@DavidSacks Start with some benefits everyone can appreciate, like 1,000 songs in your pocket

@DavidSacks i think a lot of this is cope; it's much scarier for people who fear ASI if Dario/Sam are sincere in their belief in near-term superintelligence, so they cope and say they are insincere and this is some grand ploy for regulatory capture or to build hype.

If Anthropic's goal was to make a profit and serve their customers, the constant Doom discourse wouldn't make sense. But that is not why they exist, and once one accepts that their reason for existence is to make people afraid of AI and gain control of AI R&D for EA, their behavior suddenly is completely explainable.

@DavidSacks Someone tell Daario the Alphabet regulation as a moat strategy won’t work.

@DavidSacks half the time I'm here to read the snarky comments!

Why do you keep trying to pin this on Anthropic? Haha. They have no magic formula. They didn't invent the car, they were just the people who got to a dangerous speed first.

The issue is not Anthropic. Stop playing your book.

The solution is being smart and creating mitigation strategies.

It's not "safety!" There is no such thing!

@DavidSacks Fear is built in to the mass psyche David, hard to resist as it was key to Denisovans to our current hominid groups!

Good luck, 🍀 maybe restraint will prevail from your side for effective emphasis.

@DavidSacks When an AI miracle is the only way to avoid an economic collapse those that know best better not be insufficiently gleeful.

The future of society requires it. It will be easier to explain the Orwelian environment after the fact than beforehand.

@DavidSacks Just give us Fable back, cmon