{"id":1038963,"date":"2026-09-28T07:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038963"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:28:34","slug":"anthropic-investor-criticises-top-tech-firms-for-weaponising-ai-fear-to-shape-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/28\/anthropic-investor-criticises-top-tech-firms-for-weaponising-ai-fear-to-shape-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic investor criticises top tech firms for weaponising AI fear to shape laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts by leading artificial intelligence firms to highlight existential risks from the technology amount to a dangerous bid to shape public policy, according to Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic and co-founder of Palantir. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Reuters Momentum AI Austin event, Lonsdale criticised moves by figures close to Anthropic and OpenAI to fund third-party groups that lobby for stricter industry rules. He stated that such measures risk creating an environment where a small circle of dominant developers dictates oversight to entrench existing market power, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts by leading artificial intelligence firms to highlight existential risks from the technology amount to a dangerous bid to shape public policy, according to Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic and co-founder of Palantir. Speaking at the Reuters Momentum AI Austin event, Lonsdale criticised moves by figures close to Anthropic and OpenAI to fund third-party groups that lobby for stricter industry rules. He stated that such measures risk creating an environment where a small circle of dominant developers dictates oversight to entrench existing market power, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038963","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038990,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038963\/revisions\/1038990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}