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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Johana Bhuiyan

More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils but Musk dismisses ‘psyop’

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Stickers for Claude software on an attendees laptop at Claude developer conference in London, on Tuesday, 19 May 2026. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A day after a former researcher at Anthropic made an apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence, more researchers and staff members at the AI startup publicly agreed with him and posted their own dire warnings.

In response, Elon Musk and other conservative figures on X, formerly Twitter, called the chorus of concerns a “setup” and a “psyop”.

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