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We Need to Nationalize the AI Companies

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Ackerman, S. (2026, October 30). We Need to Nationalize the AI Companies. Zeteo. https://zeteo.com/p/we-need-to-nationalize-the-ai-companies

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Zeteo · collected 2026-10-30 · by Spencer Ackerman commentary

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This article is an opinion piece that critiques Anthropic’s proposed AI regulatory framework and argues against the company's claim to being humane. The author points out discrepancies between Anthropic's ethical guidelines, which allow for significant potential harm from AI before intervention by regulators, and internal communications suggesting a far more dangerous outlook on AI development. The piece also discusses concerns about the credibility of statements made by AI researchers regarding the risks posed by their work, framing these as either genuine fears or strategic marketing ploys to inflate stock prices ahead of initial public offerings.
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Story summary

Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company, has proposed a draft bill suggesting that AI models should be allowed to potentially cause up to 50 deaths or $1 billion in damage before regulatory intervention. This proposal was disclosed to Politico by Anthropic’s spokesperson as a "sensible policy" for Congress to consider. In reaction, Evan Hubinger, an Anthropic senior researcher, tweeted that there is more than a 10% chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade. Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and OpenAI, stating they are "gambling with human lives." This stance highlights concerns about the ethical implications and potential risks posed by advanced AI technologies.

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Spencer Ackerman
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Topics

Anthropic Congress OpenAI Politico U.S.

Subjects

Anthropic ORG · 7× Coxon PERSON · 2× Hubinger PERSON · 2× Congress ORG · 1× Evan Hubinger PERSON · 1× Jacob Coxon PERSON · 1× Miles Dyson PERSON · 1× OpenAI ORG · 1× Politico ORG · 1× Sarah Connor PERSON · 1×

Narrative

The overwhelming majority of us, who have no visibility into the labs, have no choice but to wonder whether those inside of them are building an extinction machine or simply engaged in now-routine fraud.
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We Need to Nationalize the AI Companies · assertive framing

Claims (17 extracted, 2 hedged)

IN THE OPINION of the artificial intelligence giant Anthropic, an AI model should be permitted to kill or seriously injure up to 50 people at a stretch. asserted
model → permit → stretch
A larger death toll than that, according to Anthropic’s scrupulous moral accounting, should prompt government regulators to block the release of a model. uncertain
toll → accord → model
Similarly, Anthropic contends that frontier AI should get to risk causing as much as $1 billion of damage before regulators intervene. asserted
regulators → contend → damage
All that is contained in the draft of a bill Anthropic is pushing to shape the long-awaited contours of an AI regulatory framework. asserted
Anthropic → contain → framework
“These are sensible policies we believe Congress should act on,” a company spokesperson told Politico. asserted
spokesperson → believe → Politico
Remember this the next time Anthropic positions itself as the humane AI company. asserted
Anthropic → remember → company
Not that it’s much comfort, but AI researchers, with astonishing casualness, project that their products will cull far more than 50 people at a time. asserted
products → ’ → time
Last month, Anthropic senior researcher Evan Hubinger tweeted that he considers AI to have a greater than 10% chance of “kill[ing] all humans… within the next decade.” asserted
AI → tweet → decade
Hubinger was reacting to Jacob Coxon, who announced he had quit Anthropic because it, and rival OpenAI, were “gambling with our lives.” asserted
it → react → lives
At least Coxon, like Miles Dyson in ‘Terminator 2’, had the moral rigor to stop committing harm; and Sarah Connor didn’t even have to shoot him first. asserted
Connor → have → him
It is a portrait of capitalist nihilism that people like Hubinger would continue to develop a technology they believe might bring about extinction. uncertain
they → continue → extinction
Coxon hastened to insist that AI researchers who make such predictions are not engaged in a “marketing stunt.” asserted
who → hasten → stunt
He said so because the handful of tech oligarchs who control AI are thoroughly untrustworthy. asserted
who → say → AI
They have inflated an AI bubble that threatens the U.S. economy. asserted
that → inflate → economy
Many suspect that such apocalyptic forecasts are cynical, backdoor assurances of AI potency that puff the bubble up ahead of long-expected IPOs. asserted
that → suspect → IPOs
The overwhelming majority of us, who have no visibility into the labs, have no choice but to wonder whether those inside of them are building an extinction machine or simply engaged in now-routine fraud. asserted
those → have → fraud
All these should be considered clues. asserted
these → consider → ?
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