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AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse

Four tech investors dissect whether the viral AI extinction panic is a coordinated regulatory capture campaign, what it means for Anthropic's IPO, and how Nike destroyed itself by abandoning its north star.

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You're asking public market investors to underwrite your company to trillions, while your own safety lead says your core product is unsolved and potentially civilization ending — that is a mother of all product liability lawsuits.

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within the company. But it does raise these these questions that Chimath is talking about. And I I do think that there's a tension here in Anthropic's position that I do think implicates their IPO process. And the tension is this. On the one hand, you're asking public market investors to underwrite your company to a value in the trillions. On the other hand, your own safety lead, not Jacob Cox and the boss who then sort of co-signed his his tweet is saying that your core product is unsolved and potentially civilization ending. I mean, at a minimum, that is a mother of all

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You're asking public market investors to underwrite your company to a value in the trillions, On the other hand, while your own safety lead not Jacob Cox and the boss who then sort of co-signed his his tweet is saying that says your core product is unsolved and potentially civilization ending I mean, at a minimum, that is a mother of all product liability lawsuits.

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Historically the way Anthropic has solved this tension is they've said: in anybody else's hands, frontier AI is too dangerous — but in our virtuous and wise hands, it's safe. Everybody can see that is the most ludicrous self-serving argument.

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public market investor want to invest in that? So, it's fundamentally a contradiction and it's intention. And I think that historically the way that Anthropic has solved this tension is they've basically said, "Yeah, in anybody else's hands, Frontier AI is too dangerous to be developed, but in our virtuous and wise hands, it's safe. We will make it safe. We're the only ones you can trust. And everybody else in the world can see that that is the most ludicrous self-serving argument. We're not buying into it. We're not going to

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Historically the way that Anthropic has solved this tension is they've basically said: "Yeah, in anybody else's hands, frontier AI is too dangerous to be developed, but in our virtuous and wise hands, it's safe. We will make it safe. We're the only ones you can trust. And Everybody else in the world can see that that is the most ludicrous self-serving argument.

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The data you have in your AI chats doesn't even reach the same level of protection as email — and when you think about how personal AI is becoming, people using it as their lawyer, their doctor, their therapist, that just seems kind of crazy.

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happened. I mean, but look, I don't know anything. I could be proven different, but I tend to believe that. But look, I think this raises a somewhat orthogonal issue that's worth talking about, which is data privacy. And I think we need much stronger data privacy laws around the data that you have with AI services. >> So right now, the data you have in your AI chats doesn't even reach the same level of protection as email. So in most contexts, if the government wants to get your emails, they would have to get a search warrant and they'd have to prove probable cause in a court. But that is

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think we need much stronger data privacy laws around The data that you have with AI services. >> So right now, the data you have in your AI chats doesn't even reach the same level of protection as email — and when you think about how personal AI is becoming, people using it as their lawyer, their doctor, their therapist, that just seems kind of crazy.

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Nike's north star was mastery and excellence embodied through athletics. Somewhere along the way, mastery and excellence became too traditional looking — and I don't aspire to be a fat person, never have, never will. I aspire to be Michael Jordan.

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would they kill the retail channel of all things uh and piss off those folks who are their big advocates? If I've learned anything in almost 30 years of business, you have to have a very clear north star and stick to it. >> And at least when I was growing up, Nike's northstar was very clear to me, which was mastery and excellence embodied through athletics. That was it. I would see Michael Jordan and I saw mastery and excellence. I would see Tiger Woods, mastery and excellence. I would see Serena Williams, mastery and excellence. Pete Sampas, you name it. And it was mastery and excellence.

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Nike's north star and stick to it. >> And at least when I was growing up, Nike's northstar was very clear to me, which was mastery and excellence embodied through athletics. That was it. Somewhere along the way, mastery and excellence became too traditional looking — and I would see don't aspire to be a fat person, never have, never will. I aspire to be Michael Jordan.

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They shifted from product to narrative — and it was all about what's the narrative the audience wants to hear. That's the same problem Bud Light had. You don't have to comment on everything.

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at the end of last year. And if you keep doing that, the business will keep growing. And that's what he's been doing. And I think that's the opposite of what Nike's focused on because they shifted from product to narrative. And it was all about what's the narrative that we think the audience wants to hear. It's the same problem that Bud Light had >> and the whole thing. Yeah. And when you >> remember that huge ad for Colin Kaepernick they ran in San Francisco, it's like >> that was the turning point in my opinion. It was like, "What? What the

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that's the opposite of what Nike's focused on because They shifted from product to narrative and it was all about what's the narrative that we think the audience wants to hear. It's That's the same problem that Bud Light had. You don't have to comment on everything.

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