Sam Bankman-Fried
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Sep 12, 2026
99HOST
There's another project, Graham Moore's Netflix limited series, The Altruists, which follows the downfall of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
99HOST
It stars Anthony Boyle as co-founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Julia Garner as Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison.
99HOST
Obviously a drama.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Okay.
David GerardGUEST
I mean, one of the
KieranHOST
big advocates was Sam Bankman-Fried.
KieranHOST
And, of course, one of the directions that EA went in was to say the most moral thing you can do is earn money.
KieranHOST
a load of money doing whatever, doesn't matter how evil it is, and then use that money for good, you see.
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.
David SacksHOST
But think about their financial interest.
Jasmine SunGUEST
And so I think all the time to that anecdote that I think SBF said on a podcast where it's-
Ezra KleinHOST
Sam Bankman-Fried
Jasmine SunGUEST
...
Jasmine SunGUEST
Yeah, Sam Bankman-Fried said on a podcast where it was like, if you could flip a coin and it was 51% odds y- you would double the total amount of, like, human welfare and 49% chance everyone dies, would you flip the coin? He says yes.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
And again, I, I feel compelled to say, like, caveats here of like, you know, how do you really know that's what's happening, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
Put that aside.
Jasmine SunGUEST
Um, but it makes sense to me why the public is not particularly sympathetic to any of these.
Ezra KleinHOST
I mean, that middle narrative, what...
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
There's a lot to it.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
Uh, uh, some are saying even if he's an insider, even a tie to Sam Bankman-Fried, I don't know if you saw that one, Tom, and, and Bernie Sanders.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
Some very interesting, uh, NGOs that there could be a tie to.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
We'll get into that.
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Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
Anyways, if you go through it, you will see a pattern.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
Elon responds to this.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
It says, "Jacob Coxon doesn't have much of a resume, but we know that in 2022 he got a $20,000 scholarship from Long-Term Future Scholarship Program from Good Venture, uh, Foundation, one of philanthropic, uh, vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of, uh, millions on policy advocacy to regulate it." And so as you, as you go through this, there's some ties to Sam Bankman-Fried.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
Elon responds back, and Elon says, "This is a bunch of BS." He, uh, uh, mocks the ex-Anthropic staffer who warned AI could kill all of us.
Brian ChauGUEST
And I was getting very frustrated at the time because the whole Biden AI executive order, the way it came about was that there were these two very prominent donors who pushed for the executive order and for this new regulatory agency that they created, later repealed by Trump.
Brian ChauGUEST
One was Sam Bankman-Fried, who is now in jail for fraud.
Brian ChauGUEST
And then the second largest one was this guy, Dustin Moskovitz, who we're going to talk a lot about today, but is also a billionaire.
Brian ChauGUEST
and donates to a lot of these causes and thought like this was just totally unprepared.
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Brian ChauGUEST
It's not helping me at all.
Brian ChauGUEST
It's like this really toxic game.
Brian ChauGUEST
But so the type of person who stays is someone like Sam Bankman-Fried, who actually is very intelligent, but is also like very narcissistic, very psychopathic.
Brian ChauGUEST
And so you get this positive correlation as you go up the intelligence ladder inside the AI safety movement, where the more intelligent and successful people are within that movement.
Prakash NarayananHOST
One of the members, postdoctoral researcher in computational propaganda at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Prakash NarayananHOST
Newspeak funders, Long-Term Future Fund, EA Infrastructure Fund, funded by SBF.
Prakash NarayananHOST
Um, $50,000, $30,000.
Prakash NarayananHOST
Coxon isn't the AI first AI figure safety figure to be tied to prison abolition.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
More than 10 years ago, in 2016, The Guardian published an interview with philosopher Nick Bostrom called Artificial Intelligence: We're like children playing with a bomb.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
Back in April of 2022, months before we would get ChatGPT, the now imprisoned Sam Bankman-Fried invested $500 million in Anthropic Series B, leading the round.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
While some of the revisionist history around this now views it almost as what would've been a visionary investment, given that the stake would be worth over $30 billion, according to research by journalist David Z. Morris, who wrote a book about SBF called Stealing the Future, this was less visionary investment and more a bailout of then one-year-old Anthropic by the person who had become the richest in the effective altruist circles, which was Sam Bankman-Fried.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
Then we got the ChatGPT moment, and everyone started paying attention to AI.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
And in early 2023, there was once again a lot of attention on concerns about human extinction.
Erika HerskowitzHOST
The ECB reiterated that it won't pre-commit to further steps, but forecasts for faster inflation and the Eurozone's surprising economic strength convinced markets that more monetary tightening is on the way.
Erika HerskowitzHOST
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking the Supreme Court to review his twenty twenty-three fraud conviction and twenty-five year prison sentence in a last ditch legal effort to win his freedom.
Erika HerskowitzHOST
Bankman-Fried claims that US District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrongly blocked the defense from telling jurors that FTX still had plenty of money to repay customers despite filing for bankruptcy.
Erika HerskowitzHOST
Bankman-Fried's lawyers argued that the government's presentation of evidence that FTX customers lost money prejudiced the jury against him, and that this position should have prevented the government from presenting such evidence.
Zac PrinceGUEST
FTX, ultimately, everybody knows how that ended, but Sam is in prison now.
Zac PrinceGUEST
I was a victim witness at the trial for SBF.
Zac PrinceGUEST
For technical reasons, we weren't officially part of FTX yet.
Zac PrinceGUEST
We were still an independent company.
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