The AI doomer hype machine has gone into total overdrive. Every Democrat politician has jumped on board the "regulate AI" bandwagon; Barack Obama has called for AI to be the top campaign issue; Democrat congressional leaders want to cancel the recess to write AI regulation laws; and the AI companies are proposing that an outside NGO become the de facto regulator of the industry.
The playbook is one we have seen before: stoke fear, gain narrative control, increase the power of government, distribute money and power to the "right" people.
Fear short-circuits rational faculties, and urgency makes action necessary and impossible to stop. Forget the details; we have to do something NOW!
And that something always, always, ALWAYS has winners and losers, and the winners are the people pushing the fear and the losers are you and me.
As with COVID, some of the dangers alluded to regarding AI are not "fake." There is a kernel of truth buried in all the hype, although the chances that AI will kill us all are vanishingly small. In the immediate term, the dangers of a financial crash caused by AI company overspending and businesses misunderstanding what AI is and is not, and hence firing people stupidly, are much greater.
Yet another reason to vaporize Anthropic. It's not going to destroy the world, but that's a convenient excuse, given that they are run by left-wing morons who hate our country
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 15, 2026
The coming AI war will be about whether truth can triumph over propaganda https://t.co/b0Ru0ZZUUT
"Runaway" AI or AI "superintelligence" is far lower on the scale of things to worry about, and Skynet is nowhere on the horizon. Intentional misuse of this technology, as with any other powerful tech, is the larger worry. The solution is prudence backed by liability forced on the AI companies, which will be far more effective at curbing recklessness than regulations pushed by government.
Breaking in @dealbook: Jay Carney is joining SV Angel, Ron Conway’s venture capital firm, to run a new initiative called Project Blueprint. Its purpose is to rebuild bonds between leaders in the artificial intelligence sector and Democrats who are demanding new rules to regulate… pic.twitter.com/K9HwWOfpXQ
— Andrew Ross Sorkin (@andrewrsorkin) September 14, 2026
If you liked the COVID response from government, you will love the proposed solutions for AIs going rogue, because the proposed "solutions" being pushed are even worse in many ways than the totalitarian regime imposed during COVID.
Column's up: Obama and the Dems are suspiciously crying ‘AI apocalypse’ — just in time for the midterms. All they need is the anti-AI Greta Thunberg.https://t.co/r19IlHK0XW
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) September 14, 2026
AI is now the backbone of our internet infrastructure through which we search for information. Already, the search engines are AI-driven, and one of the proposals is to inject narrative and information control backed by the government into the models, restricting what you can see and listen to, and what "facts" are said to be real and which are false, or never even discussed because they are buried.
There are far too many conspiracy theorists out there talking about coordination! https://t.co/F5dINoYC68 pic.twitter.com/lBkMhEo1UL
— Sayer Ji (@sayerjigmi) September 15, 2026
And who do the AI companies want to "regulate" them? Themselves, of course, through cutouts.
Kevin Bass did a deep dive into the organizations being promoted at the ideal outside quasi-government regulator, and guess whose money is behind it?
Anthropic, the mega-AI startup that claims to be worth $2 trillion, and from whom Jacob Coxon, the faux-"whistleblower" just resigned.
== Anthropic equity, the donated stake, and the accounts that pay Coefficient's grants ==
— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) September 14, 2026
Claim: Anthropic's Series H release (May 28 2026) names Jane Street and D.E. Shaw Ventures among the investors; individual amounts are not disclosed.
Why it matters: Fixes the Series H…
I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.
What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.
Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.
It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.
Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.
It starts with METR.
Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.
He proposes METR for this purpose.
But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.
Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.
And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.
This stock was worth $500 million early last year.
It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.
METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.
Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.
But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.
The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all.
The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.
If this were the end of it, that's bad.
But that isn't all.
The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.
The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.
They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.
All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.
As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.
Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.
From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.
This itself is an objective fact.
The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.
But the problem also goes in the other direction:
If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.
Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.
Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.
They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.
And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.
What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.
The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.
And that feedback loop is winning.
That's what Jacob Coxon is.
China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.
America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.
Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.
Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.
It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.
Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.
Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.
Congress must investigate.
Evidence and Github in next post.
Then some supplementary figures.
Anthropic is promoting an organization called "Model Evaluation and Threat Research" (METR) to oversee the development of AI and its implementation, yet that organization is functionally dependent on Anthropic to succeed. The better Anthropic does financially, the better it does. It was founded by Anthropic's founders; its members are directly or indirectly invested in the company, and its associated NGOs are all funded, ultimately, by Anthropic stock.
https://t.co/p2yLCVQmB9 pic.twitter.com/zU86VrHtSl
— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) September 15, 2026
What is being proposed is nothing short of a public-private quasi-regulatory agency that serves the interests of politicians by allowing them to control the flow of information, and serves the interests of the AI companies by creating an oligopoly/cartel that freezes out everybody who isn't in the club.
Two of the reporters on the byline are funded by the Tarbell Center, an AI doomer org controlled by Kamala Harris megadonor Dustin Moskovitz. Tarbell gives journalists large grants to insert AI doomer stories into prominent outlets. @TIME did not disclose the affiliation. https://t.co/m3iFoQPUW9
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) September 15, 2026
The club sets the rules, grabs the entire market, creates insurmountable barriers to entry, essentially bans local AI, and gets declared a strategically important industry that is too big to fail — and financially, the AI companies are in desperate financial straits.
🚨 Innovation Council’s Taylor @Budowich on the push for sweeping AI regulation:
— Innovation Council (@innovationcncl) September 14, 2026
“The Democrats have tried this cycle after cycle, decade after decade. They tried it with the Paris Climate Accords. It’s not about the climate. It’s about control. And now they’re trying to… pic.twitter.com/GEhtWLjEy4
🚨 Innovation Council’s Taylor @Budowich on the push for sweeping AI regulation:
“The Democrats have tried this cycle after cycle, decade after decade. They tried it with the Paris Climate Accords. It’s not about the climate. It’s about control. And now they’re trying to blackmail the American people with this idea of safety, like they’re going to release a world-ending technology if we don’t regulate it.”
I outlined the reasons why this panic was started now — the AI business model is doomed to fail, and trillions of dollars are at stake — and as you can see, the proposed solution, based on a questionable "we are all doomed" scenario, is to secure the financial position of these companies in exchange for handing over totalitarian control of information to politicians.
Is it any wonder that Democrats are all over this?
Benefits of AI regulation:
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 14, 2026
— ChatGPT/Anthropic/XAI are protected from open source/Chinese competitors
— We are protected from unapproved ideas currently slipping past moderators
— We are protected from the temptation of using AI to achieve accountability in government
—… https://t.co/gCWHc5OtO4
Democrats are all-in on this push, and while the politicians are jumping on the "doom" bandwagon, the operatives are getting in on the financial grift.
Just as happened with "climate change." There are trillions to be made, power to accumulate, and narrative control to be had.
That's what this is all about. Not safety.
As a former Democrat, I was privy to the morning messaging calls from orgs like Third Way, The Democracy Alliance and others. Anyone who doesn’t see the Democrat party maneuvering to capture AI as a political issue and an opportunity to expand their vast bureaucratic web is… https://t.co/mLsjFUo8g1
— Daniel S. Loeb (@DanielSLoeb1) September 15, 2026
As a former Democrat, I was privy to the morning messaging calls from orgs like Third Way, The Democracy Alliance and others. Anyone who doesn’t see the Democrat party maneuvering to capture AI as a political issue and an opportunity to expand their vast bureaucratic web is blind or ignorant. Recall Sam Bankman-Fried was a vociferous Effective Altruist (ironic because they are neither) and largest donor to the Dem party.
Does that mean there is nothing to worry about? Of course not. Every new technology presents challenges, and every new truly powerful technology can produce scary outcomes.
But look at what nuclear power doomerism did to us. Look at how Europe has been crippled by climate doomerism. Look at the fortunes made through the climate scam.
Look at COVID.
It's the same playbook. "The world is ending. Only we can save you. Trust us, and give us all your money and freedom."
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