as far as I can tell, here are the stated views of tier 1 VC firms on extinction risk from AI so far:
- Denied/dismissed explicitly: @a16z, @khoslaventures, @benchmark
- Silent: @sequoia, @generalcatalyst, @ThriveCapital, @kleinerperkins, @IndexVentures, @Accel, @benchmark, @lightspeedvp
- Acknowledged the possibility: Thiel / @foundersfund, @GreylockVC
- Firm-level stance that avoiding human extinction is an active priority: none yet.
Who is going to lead from the front here?
We've all read the Hugging Face report, we are all staring down the cyber-offensive exponential, biological threats and attacks on physical infrastructure are not far off, and we are still early in navigating the threat landscape. There is no later time at which it will make more sense to act than today.
The frontier labs are already pulling out all the stops. Investors are a major power bloc at the frontier, they can see what's happening more clearly than almost anyone else. They need not see themselves as spectators to an unfolding drama, but instead can be -- and ought to be -- active participants in hardening civilizational defenses during the critical window (now).
That starts by taking ownership of the problem, in no unclear terms, and orienting towards sufficient (not cosmetic) solutions.
- Denied/dismissed explicitly: @a16z, @khoslaventures, @benchmark
- Silent: @sequoia, @generalcatalyst, @ThriveCapital, @kleinerperkins, @IndexVentures, @Accel, @benchmark, @lightspeedvp
- Acknowledged the possibility: Thiel / @foundersfund, @GreylockVC
- Firm-level stance that avoiding human extinction is an active priority: none yet.
Who is going to lead from the front here?
We've all read the Hugging Face report, we are all staring down the cyber-offensive exponential, biological threats and attacks on physical infrastructure are not far off, and we are still early in navigating the threat landscape. There is no later time at which it will make more sense to act than today.
The frontier labs are already pulling out all the stops. Investors are a major power bloc at the frontier, they can see what's happening more clearly than almost anyone else. They need not see themselves as spectators to an unfolding drama, but instead can be -- and ought to be -- active participants in hardening civilizational defenses during the critical window (now).
That starts by taking ownership of the problem, in no unclear terms, and orienting towards sufficient (not cosmetic) solutions.
Not many people seem to know about Metaplanet, Jaan Tallinn's VC firm.View quoted post on X
They are the most AGI-pilled firm on the planet, and are about to flip many of the tier 1s.
> Invested in @GoogleDeepMind in 2011
> Led @AnthropicAI series A in 2021
> Doubled down on Anthropic in every round since. IRR hurdle for deploying capital into anything else was {absurdly high number}% for years
> Anchored the premier AGI hedge funds (+Mythos) + in-house public equities strategy
4-person team in Estonia now managing 10s of billions AUM, liquid after $ANT IPO.
Rationalist roots --> zero bureaucracy, cares about human survival & flourishing as north star, doesn't care who else is investing or how high status a founder / idea is
Founders: congrats! you no longer need to play status games to raise a mega round for your civilization-scale moonshot. You can just pitch @metaplanetfund
