{"id":1013817,"date":"2026-06-11T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013817"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:32:04","slug":"after-slamming-anthropic-for-ai-led-layoffs-while-hiring-engineers-at-high-salaries-david-sacks-responds-to-startups-latest-warning-that-is-in-10000-plus-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/11\/after-slamming-anthropic-for-ai-led-layoffs-while-hiring-engineers-at-high-salaries-david-sacks-responds-to-startups-latest-warning-that-is-in-10000-plus-words\/","title":{"rendered":"After slamming Anthropic for AI-led layoffs, while hiring engineers at high salaries; David Sacks responds to startup\u2019s latest &#8216;warning&#8217; that is in 10,000-plus words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Sacks, Donald Trump\u2019s former White House AI Czar, has publicly slammed Anthropic following the release of the AI safety lab\u2019s massive, 10,000-word research paper warning about the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Sacks charged that Anthropic was using fear-mongering about AI&#8217;s dangers, including job displacement, 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\u2019s \u2018hypocracy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSigns you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized,\u201d Sacks wrote in response to a 10,000-word essay by Anthropic, adding, \u201cYou compare it to nukes\u2026 threaten half of white-collar jobs\u2026 warn recursive self-improvement could end humanity\u2026 then race ahead anyway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sacks, Donald Trump\u2019s former White House AI Czar, has publicly slammed Anthropic following the release of the AI safety lab\u2019s massive, 10,000-word research paper warning about the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Sacks charged that Anthropic was using fear-mongering about AI&#8217;s dangers, including job displacement, 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\u2019s \u2018hypocracy\u2019. \u201cSigns you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized,\u201d Sacks wrote in response to a 10,000-word essay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013818,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013817\/revisions\/1013818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}