September 16, 2026
What Is The Price To Terminate Humanity?
A short essay expressing thoughts on the ridiculous activities happening around AI
4 min read
In the last two days we’ve been treated to President Trump ‘interrupting’ Jason Huang on the All Open podcast to throw his support behind the idea of keeping our collective foot on the gas pedal for the AI platforms in this country and Anthropic and OpenAI agreeing that their work has the potential to extinguish the human race.
The unexpected surprise
On Tuesday, September 15, 2026, Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, ‘unexpectedly’ took a call from the President of the United States while on stage recording a live session of the podcast All In. At the 23:00 minute mark, Jensen calls out,“Oh no”, and the host says “This is not planned, but we know who it is”.
Puh-lease! Who in their right mind doesn’t believe that with all of the doomer talk over the weekend that this ‘interruption’ wasn’t planned to get the President’s and Huang’s narrative out there. The narrative they need to be believed is that we just can’t slow down our spending on AI, in fact we need more spending. Huang needs the spending to continue at or above the current pace to ensure that all of the circular financing for the purchase of Nvidia chips stays in place. The President needs the spending to continue as the current earnings growth and, hence, stock market rise are significantly supported by the AI spending. Goldman Sachs says that AI investment spending is responsible for half (50%) of the current growth in S&P 500 earnings.
To put on the show that this call and it’s timing wasn’t planned to the second demonstrates what fools they think we are. They can’t treat us like adults capable of logical thought, instead they treat us like the five years old that they need us to behave like.
$2 Trillion market cap
The doomer narrative began on September 08, 2026, when Jacob Coxon announced on X that he resigned from Anthropic due to his concerns that neither OpenAI or Anthropic took the risk of super intelligence seriously enough. This quote from Jacob is laughable, “No other human activity poses this level of danger.” Seriously, Jacob? Nuclear armaments don’t come close to the level of danger that is possible with LLMs (large language models) and automation?
Not to be outdone, Evan Hubinger, the lead alignment scientist at Anthropic joined the fray with his pronouncement that, “we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”
This began a week of doomer interviews, analysis and writing by those in the tech industry, industry CEOs and journalists in general. Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, published a 3,800 word essay on his belief that the pacing (speed of AI development) needs to be slowed down so more compute power can be assigned to safety concerns. He closes his essay with the sentence, “But I believe we owe it to humanity to try.” Good, Amodei…then do it. No one is stopping you, in fact you are the CEO of one of these companies. If you believe there is such an existential threat to the human race then act on your concerns and slow down your development and assign more compute to alignment and safety.
Oh, by the way, as CEO of Anthropic, he should also point out that they are going after an IPO (Initial Public Offering) of their stock this year yet and they believe (are looking for?) that their company should be valued around $2 Trillion.
Said another way
A company whose lead alignment scientist has stated that “they” believe that their technology has a better than 10% chance to KILL HUMANITY within the decade believes that the proper valuation of such capabilities is around $2 Trillion.
We’ve shut down airline manufacturers for less destruction of the human race (a few hundred deaths) than total annihilation.
If these companies’ actions are threatening the human race with destruction, then it is our government’s duty to stop their ability to build and release any further models to the public. Which will have the interesting outcome of ceasing the activities of some of the most profitable companies in the world and of the richest human beings.
Excuse me while I get some popcorn. This is beginning to get entertaining.
Previous Reading:
Amodei, Dario. (September 2026). We Must Pace the Frontier. https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
(September, 14, 2026). All In Podcast. Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7CrlFLAmEA
Chawake, Anurag. (September 09, 2026). Yahoo! News. Anthropic researcher quits, warns AI could wipe out humanity by 2030. https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/anthropic-researcher-quits-warns-ai-163042506.html