David Sacks, Donald Trump’s former White House AI Czar, has publicly slammed Anthro00-word research paper warning about the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Sacks charged that Anthroisplacement, push for government regulation of the industry. Sacks had earlier called out the company for claiming its products could replace software developers while simultaneously advertising a $500,000-a-year engineering role, highlighting the startup’s ‘hypocracy’.“Signs you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized,” Sacks wrote in response to a 10,000-word essay by Anthropic, adding, “You compare it to nukes… threaten half of white-collar jobs… warn recursive self-improvement could end humanity… then race ahead anyway. In other words, you want the government to save us from… you”.
The pivot from job losses to humanity’s survival
The latest comment came months after Anthro. Throughout 2026, CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI could trigger 10% to 20% unemployment within five years, heavily disrupting fields like coding, finance and law.“Anthroight now for $570,000,” Sacks noted in a previous conversation with venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya. “So what Anthrors at a very high wage… but somehow they think these jobs are going to be eliminated,” he added.
What Anthro
Anthropic’s new 10,000-word paper, titled When AI builds itself, pivots from standard automation fears to an existential threat: recursive self-improvement. The paper argues that the greatest danger is no longer just laid-off workers, but a reality where AI systems design and train their own successors, pushing humans out of the loop entirely. Anthrolignment could go out of control across generations of software, threatening human control over the technology entirely. To back up its warnings, Anthro accelerating.As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s own codebase was written by its AI assistant, Claude, the company said, adding that the average Anthroared to previous years.
