Sriram Krishnan

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Venture capitalist and former senior White House policy adviser on artificial intelligence.

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DI has documented statements by Sriram Krishnan on Artificial Intelligence. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Sriram Krishnan

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Sriram Krishnan

Role at the time: Public post on Sriram Krishnan's individual account; the post does not identify itself as a formal government or institutional statement.

Challenged the characterization

Statement summary

Krishnan says frontier researchers he has encountered sincerely believe their warnings, while challenging the idea that one company or school of thought should represent the entire industry. He calls for perspectives from open-model developers, cybersecurity practitioners, and chipmakers.

“I find them to be intellectually honest in terms of believing what they say.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Sriram Krishnan on Coxon’s warning and the frontier AI safety debate · Sriram Krishnan
Why we used this label

Challenges claims of insincerity and industry-wide consensus; broader discussion, not an exoneration of Anthropic.

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