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David Sacks is a technology entrepreneur, venture investor, and co-host of the All-In podcast. He founded Craft Ventures after earlier roles at PayPal and Yammer, and was appointed White House AI and cryptocurrency czar in 2025.
Role at the time: Technology investor and former White House AI czar, personal X post
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Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
"Surely Anthropic’s IPO must be paused until the claims of this “whistleblower” can be investigated."
The proposal is conditional and rhetorically framed; it does not establish either that Sacks endorses every allegation or that a regulatory halt exists.
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Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and said that Anthropic and OpenAI are acting irresponsibly by racing toward self-improving superintelligence. In a fuller interview, he praised Anthropic's current practices and denied that it was already cutting corners; his criticism concerns the competitive race and the pressures he expects it to create. Responses dispute the evidence and timing of catastrophic-risk forecasts, whether continued work inside AI labs can be justified, and whether governments should pause development or regulate its continuation. The record distinguishes these disagreements from arguments about the rhetoric of public warnings.
