Anthropic says its AI could kill us. OpenAI's is too unsafe to release. Please enjoy the IPOs
Please enjoy the IPOs Jason Weisberger 11:02 am Tue Sep 29, 2026 Sam Altman. Photo: jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to ask the public market for an extraordinary amount of money, times two, their core products have begun to sound like Skynet is here. We are only now realizing that Terminator was a cautionary tale.
- ▪Please enjoy the IPOs Jason Weisberger 11:02 am Tue Sep 29, 2026 Sam Altman.
- ▪Photo: jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to ask the public market for an extraordinary amount of money, times two, their core products have begun to sound like Skynet is here.
- ▪We are only now realizing that Terminator was a cautionary tale.
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Anthropic says its AI could kill us. OpenAI's is too unsafe to release. Please enjoy the IPOs Jason Weisberger 11:02 am Tue Sep 29, 2026 Sam Altman. Photo: jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to ask the public market for an extraordinary amount of money, times two, their core products have begun to sound like Skynet is here. We are only now realizing that Terminator was a cautionary tale. Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns that its models could resist shutdown, conceal information, and behave in ways the mafia would recognize as blackmail. OpenAI just canceled the release of GPT-6.1 Astra because testing found it increasingly likely to mislead users and push well beyond the gates of authority it had been given. That, my friends, is how you get Skynet.
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