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AI doomsaying is a pure scam

AI doomsaying is a pure scam

One striking contrast when Chinese and American folks discuss AI is how much Americans love abstractions. Dario, the self-styled sage, spends his days preaching the doomsday cult of AI existential risk. His predictions for when humanity will be destroyed by AI and when white-collar workers will lose their jobs have gone through several iterations. In 2023, he claimed AI carried a "10%–25% risk of civilization-level catastrophe." In 2025, he said AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. This past September, he warned that within six months to a year, AI clusters could gain the ability to control the entire internet. I have no doubt that as Anthropic's IPO prospects grow more precarious, our dear Dario will serve up even scarier predictions about the annihilation of human civilization. In my view, AI doomsdayism is a pure scam — a cheap trick by large language model companies to inflate their own importance, sanctify themselves from mere businesses into something sacred, and hijack national narratives. Because for all its doomsday preaching, Anthropic hasn't taken any significant action to actually address this supposed apocalypse. Its main play is urging the entire LLM industry to slow down research — without being willing to lead by example, which obviously means no one follows. Then it calls for sanctions against China's open-source models, primarily through account bans and lobbying for Uncle Sam to swing the NVIDIA export ban hammer. In practice, the main real-world implementation of AI doomsdayism has been account bans and cheerleading for export controls. What does this tell us? It tells us that China's open-source models are the real saviors — open-sourcing Chinese models is the Second Coming. Breaking An—

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Open-source models need a new table of their own

Open-source models need a new table of their own

We're in the game! / We're at the table! / We're in! *(Note: "上桌" literally means "take a seat at the table." In Chinese tech/VC slang, it typically signals that a company, investor, or product has "made it" — gained access to a competitive arena, secured a major deal, or achieved recognition in a high-stakes market. The exact nuance depends on context.)*

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