Meta's CEO agrees with Nvidia's CEO that AI safety concerns are overblown. Anthropic's CEO thinks they're not. Three billionaires walked into a bar and somehow retail traders are still the ones getting f*cked.
Zuckerberg sides with Huang. This means he thinks we should build faster and regulate slower. Amodei wants the opposite. The debate matters because one of these men sells the chips, one builds the models, and one charges you seventeen dollars a month to talk to a chatbot that hallucinates legal advice.
Huang runs a company worth two trillion dollars because everyone needs his GPUs. Zuckerberg runs a company that lost ten billion dollars on the metaverse before pivoting to AI like nothing happened. Amodei runs a company funded by people who are terrified his product might kill us all. Guess which perspective wins when the guy selling shovels and the guy mining gold agree the mine is perfectly safe.
You bought Nvidia at the top. You bought Meta after it dropped forty percent. You're thinking about buying an Anthropic API subscription because their model is "more aligned." None of this changes the fact that the safety debate is being held by three men who benefit from you believing their version of the future.
The technical term for this is regulatory capture before the regulations exist. Huang wants to sell more chips. Zuckerberg wants to build models faster than OpenAI. Amodei wants to seem responsible enough to justify his valuation. They're all right. They're all wrong. Your portfolio is still down eighteen percent since you discovered options trading.
The real safety issue is letting people like you trade on headlines like this.
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