The Dangerous Ideology Behind the AI Warnings

By Shyam Sankar · The Free Press · September 14, 2026 · View original ↗

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Summary

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar argues that the recent wave of AI safety warnings (e.g. from ex-Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon and others predicting >10% chance of AI killing everyone by end of decade) is driven by Effective Altruism ideology, not neutral technical concern. His case: EA’s fingerprints are on the AI safety movement, and EA’s track record — SBF/FTX as the flagship example — warrants deep skepticism. The warnings, Sankar argues, are less about protecting humanity than about restricting access to the most important technology of the 21st century and concentrating control away from ordinary Americans.

Connections

• Shyam Sankar — author; CTO and EVP at Palantir; prominent tech-right voice on AI policy
• Effective Altruism — the ideology Sankar argues underlies AI safety discourse
• Artificial Intelligence — the subject of the safety debate