SCOUT· 67%24m·2026-09-18·MoneyWhy Dario Amodei and Sam Altman Are Faking the AI Doomsday Crisis | The Weekly Wrap
Sign up for The Real Eisman Playbook Premium at https://realeismanplaybook.substack.com/ On this episode of The Weekly Wrap, Steve Eisman explains why the recent extinction warnings from Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are not genuine concerns about superintelligence, but rather a deliberate shell game designed to invite…
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“To think that Altman, Musk, and Co. are having a crisis of consciousness and now are all simultaneously having concerns for the welfare of humanity is the most laughable thing I've ever heard 😂”
“I think their calls to “slow down” are simply because they want to decrease the amount of money spent training new models. It provides a convenient cover / excuse, and without having to acknowledge diminishing returns from doing so and that…”
“Alex Karp was recently on CNBC and had a great spin on the current AI environment; that is, OpenAI and Anthropic are creating a narrative that--as Steve generally states--is designed not only to invite regulation, but to actually get the US…”
“Tech industry leaders have always been good at creating reality distortion fields.”
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