Jaan Tallinn
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Sep 11, 2026
David SacksHOST
And then Daniel Kokotajlo, who's head of the AI Futures Project, who just happened to drop a Rogan episode at the same time in which he used the exact same phraseology about how AI is gonna kill us all.
David SacksHOST
And all three of these groups are funded by Jaan Tallinn, who is one of the top few of these EA mega donor doomer types, who also happens to be a co-lead of the Anthropic Series A.
David SacksHOST
So this is a tight-knit community that jumped on this tweet.
David SacksHOST
So this was not some spontaneous act by an employee who said, "Oh, I'm just gonna post my resignation letter on Twitter." This was something that was orchestrated.
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Jason CalacanisHOST
Yeah.
Jason CalacanisHOST
Clearly.
David SacksHOST
And let me, let me actually peel, peel the onion on this one more layer, which is you not only have employees of Anthropic possibly violating the quiet period by stepping out and co-signing this, you also have the fact that this whole resignation tweet storm was amplified by these groups who were funded by Jaan Tallinn and Dustin Moskovitz, who co-led the Series A of Anthropic along with Sam Bankman-Fried.
David SacksHOST
It was an EA-funded round, which is a really interesting detail in Anthropic's history, that Dario went to the EA mega-donors for funding at the very beginning, and that's part of why they have this culture.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
According to Grok, uh, those accounts, [lip smacks] Nathan, uh, Peter, uh, Nathan, general counsel of Encoda, Peter, head of policy at AI Policy Network, and DK, uh, whatever the next one is, is head of AI Future P- uh, Project, all of which are up-and-coming AI doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
The AI Future Project website says it's funded primarily by the Survival & Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator, and, uh, one of the following lead investors at Anthropic, to grant $2.5 million to AI Future Project.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
Anyways, if you go through it, you will see a pattern.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
Elon responds to this.
Prakash NarayananHOST
They trace the funding.
Prakash NarayananHOST
A lot of the funding goes back to initial EA and Anthropic funders, including Jan Talin, Skype creator and initial seed funder of Anthropic.
Prakash NarayananHOST
What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon's post would all be major AI restriction policy advocates.
Prakash NarayananHOST
Pretty
David GerardHOST
That's a phrase rationalist founder Eliezer Yudkowsky's been pushing for 20 years.
David GerardHOST
The Coxon campaign appears funded by Jaan Tallinn, who made his money with Skype.
David GerardHOST
Tallinn discovered Yudkowsky in 2009, and he was one-shotted.
David GerardHOST
He went full AI doomsday immediately.
Lon HarrisHOST
So before the AI, AGI era, there again, they're advocating against large-scale and existential risks posed by technology.
Lon HarrisHOST
Founders include MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, UCSC cosmologist Anthony Aguirre, and Skype co-founder Jan Talin.
Lon HarrisHOST
But interestingly also, in 2023, March 2023, FLI published a letter titled Pause Giant AI Experiments that called on major AI developers to agree on a verifiable six-month pause on any systems, quote, more powerful than GPT-4 and use that time to institute a framework for ensuring safety.
Lon HarrisHOST
Elon Musk signed that letter.
Joseph CarlsonHOST
Anthropic has been on an outright campaign for regulatory capture for a long period of time.
Joseph CarlsonHOST
In fact, one of the people that funded Anthropic was Jaan Tallinn, a notable skeptic of AI, someone that doesn't even really like AI, and the reason that he originally funded or he originally invested specifically to have control over it.
Joseph CarlsonHOST
In fact, at the same time that he was funding it, he was a big part of Survival and Flourishing Fund, which is the single biggest promoter and funder of the regulatory effort of AI.
Joseph CarlsonHOST
So there's already people since the very beginning that were frightened about AI that specifically invested in AI to have control over it, knowing that you can't really control something unless you have some stake in it, you have some equity in it.