US Investigative Blogger Exposes Anthropic’s “AI Doomsday Theory” Conspiracy: Narrative May Be Linked to a Closed-Loop of Interests, Calls for Congressional Investigation

TechFlow reports that on September 15, American investigative blogger Kevin Bass posted on the X platform exposing what he claims is a conspiracy behind Anthropic’s “AI doomsday” narrative. After reviewing Anthropic’s financial relationships, he argued that the company has formed a “regulatory capture machine” driven by funding ties, and called on the U.S. Congress to investigate.

Kevin Bass stated that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei previously proposed that third-party organizations assess AI model risks, naming METR as one such body. However, METR and its affiliated organizations’ funding sources are linked to Anthropic. The Anthropic shares held by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz were transferred into the Good Ventures Foundation, which is a major funder of the relevant AI safety ecosystem, including METR. The estimated value of these tied Anthropic shares has risen from around $500 million earlier last year to over $7.7 billion currently.

Based on this, Bass questioned whether these organizations could conduct truly independent assessments of Anthropic and AI risks. He accused institutions including the Tarbell Center of continuously propagating the “AI doomsday” narrative, thereby creating a feedback loop of “amplifying AI risk narratives —> driving regulation —> further strengthening related ecosystem funding,” a mechanism that could ultimately undermine the competitiveness of the U.S. AI industry.

(Note: The above information reflects only Kevin Bass’s personal investigations and judgments. The related financial ties and the causal chain he proposes remain to be independently verified.)