The doomer philosophy has been there since the inception. OpenAI was created from the fear of Google gaining a monopoly over superintelligence. Could've been just a recruiting strategy from Sam Altman's perspective, but maybe not so much from the people who got recruited. Dario has been around the Effective Altruism circles from way before Anthropic, and the company as a whole has always been about that line of thinking.

Trillion dollar valuation with billions of dollars of losses is what's behind the AI panic