When did tech executives start sounding like doomsday preppers with venture capital? But here we are with Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, maker of Claude AI — publishing a 38-page essay that reads less like a product roadmap and more like a civilization-ending threat assessment. The title alone should…
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Apocalypse Now—Funded by Venture Capital
A century ago, you needed a pulpit and a microphone to warn about the Antichrist. Now you can do it with a slide deck and venture funding. The Guardian reported this week that Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s most theatrical billionaires, has been delivering sold-out “Antichrist lectures” in San…