Hugging Face founder Clement Delangue calls to end AI "doom marketing" and treat models as standard products
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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue is spotlighting a New York Times guest essay that faults leading AI companies for pairing dire warnings about existential model threats with aggressive development pushes, urging them instead to market advanced systems as everyday tools with defined users, benefits, and straightforward accountability for harms.
Companies face pressure to drop apocalyptic framing
The opinion argues that dramatic risk narratives create an odd posture where firms claim they cannot slow down yet still need special oversight, leaving open how labs might adjust public messaging if they follow the advice.
Ordinary product positioning shifts accountability
By treating models like standard offerings, companies would spell out target uses upfront and accept responsibility for downstream effects rather than leaning on competitive excuses or stewardship claims.
Some users welcomed calls for AI companies to stop doom-trolling by defending leaders' sincerity on risks and AI's tool-like value, while others criticized the pieces as misreads or attacks and replied with insults or dismissals.
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This is an excellent essay in the NYT that highlights the unresolved question of why the makers of AI constantly whine and cry that the world will come to an end because of AI.
Hint: it won’t.
Full article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/opinion/ai-dangerous-openai-anthropic.html
Let's stop doom marketing/trolling! https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/opinion/ai-dangerous-openai-anthropic.html
@chamath Have you considered, that, like, maybe these people take it seriously?
You know like your fellow techno-optimist @elonmusk who says P(Doom) is well over 10%
@chamath Respectfully, I'm going to trust the people on the bleeding edge of the tech to know how much damage it can do based on the capabilities they see on the horizon.
If Dario et al. tell me this might wreak havoc on the economy if we're not careful, I'm inclined to believe them.
@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.
@chamath @grok please provide link to story
@chamath Chamath-new subscriber here...if I join a live event with you am I able to ask a qustion at some point? Or share a theory on winning the ai race? Happy to be one of your new subscriber!
@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.
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 I think a big part of the doomerism is those working in A.I. development fear their own creations ultimately surpassing them. They're acting like insecure parents.
@ClementDelangue yeah...nah
@DavidSacks You and the NYT agreeing on something simply highlights the critical nature of this issue.
@chamath It’s not just a piece about doomerism though.
Equally important to thesis is that big labs need to make the positive case for how their tech will fix the problems it creates.
@chamath How'd this affect Chamath's net worth is my real question.
@DavidSacks Sitting down with Anthropic will help but the division needs to stop.
@chamath You need an existential problem to attract top talent and investors, otherwise, you’re just making chat apps
@DavidSacks Hey @DavidSacks
A huge dipshit like you should be able to jailbreak proof frontier models right
Let’s see it dickhead
@chamath This is a complete misread of reality, Anthropic is built on safety-ism.
Dario has written extensively about 1. why he pushes the AI risk topic and 2. how the company intends to mitigate the risks.
Its like no one can get past the headlines and into the in-depth writing
@DavidSacks Anyhow even if type ugh oh or type 2 diabetes or blood type 1zero, 0 Won
*have been beaten by eternity sir
Strongly advise not to suffer a place that doesn’t suffer ever again anything at all*