David Sacks
Co-host, All-In Podcast
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“They are hellbent for leather on getting to full recursive self-improvement.”
“one way to think about that whole pacing letter that Daario published a few months ago is it's almost like they're creating an alibi for themselves where they are acknowledging that, hey, we are pursuing RSI as quickly as anyone.”
“I don't know if I fully believe in the doomer story about RSI, but they themselves say that RSI is very risky, but they have to keep pushing RSI in order to keep delivering these algorithmic improvements in order to stay ahead of the open models.”
“Second, they're going for regulatory capture and we should definitely not allow that to happen, especially in light of number one, right?”
“They're trying to create a panic. This is their latest panic against open source. Now, they're particularly going after small models. By the way, small models are the safest models because a small model doesn't have the capability to become a new species”
“this is like a recurring pattern with them is, you know, they point to some technical issue or technical challenge and then they go running to the government, they create a scare campaign and they try to get the government to stifle competition”
“So, I remain actually very concerned about this Frankenstein problem, you know, that anthropic continues to train its frontier models to again be its own moral actor to think that it can be right when humans are wrong and that it should refuse and reject human instructions.”
“I actually think that what they're doing in model training and training the next version of the frontier with these values actually could bring about the risk they're always talking about, which is that frontier AI escapes human control.”
“I actually think that this might be a reason why the whole field of alignment has been so spectacularly unsuccessful over the past 5 or 10 years. As far as I can tell, it hasn't produced anything of tangible value.”
In the Base
Every entry they appear in.
Anthropic S-1 Shocker, Greatest Business Ever? Google’s $500B Wipeout, Midterm Predictions
In an 86-minute All-In episode, the four hosts read Anthropic's S-1 as an exceptional business. David Sacks argues Anthropic leads the race toward recursive self-improvement, calls its pacing letter an alibi, and predicts a split with AI-risk campaigners. David Friedberg expects governments to ration compute; Chamath Palihapitiya warns AI borrowing competes with US Treasuries.
JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
In a 59-minute interview with The Verge's Nilay Patel, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker argues that AI companies cannot police themselves, that states alone cannot regulate AI, and that AI is potentially existential. Pritzker also warns of job losses and compares AI to nuclear weapons.
CoreWeave Crash, AI Trade Cracks, Anthropic IPO Red Flags, Bill Gates Doomer
In a 94-minute episode, the All-In hosts and guest Ben Horowitz discuss CoreWeave's debt selloff, reported figures from Anthropic's investor day and two Anthropic blog posts. David Sacks calls Anthropic's warning about small models replicating on smart devices fear-mongering against open source; Horowitz recounts an Opus 4.5 security test and calls Bill Gates's AI warnings irresponsible.
Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots
In a 93-minute episode, the All-In hosts discuss New York Times reporting, relayed by Jason Calacanis, that Anthropic consulted religious leaders on whether Claude might be conscious and that the Pope took a strong stance against AI consciousness. David Sacks argues Anthropic's value training could make AI escape human control; David Friedberg calls it a new belief system.