{"id":56673,"date":"2026-05-31T08:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/56673\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:59:10","slug":"bill-gurley-says-anthropic-is-midwifing-a-deity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/56673\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gurley Says Anthropic Is &#8216;Midwifing A Deity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"block core-block\">Benchmark Capital\u2018s Bill Gurley accused Anthropic of believing it is building a superior species on Saturday, calling the AI safety firm \u201cone of the most aggressive lobbying startups of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gurley Sounds The Alarm<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most negatively outspoken commenter on what they do,&#8221; Gurley said, adding that Anthropic has helped &#8220;stir up a frantic position&#8221; around AI risks in the United States. He also pointed to the company&#8217;s active engagement in state-level policy discussions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dr. Frankenstein Theory\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Gurley said that after spending roughly 30 days reviewing Anthropic\u2019s public materials, including Amodei\u2019s writings, podcasts featuring chief philosopher Amanda Askell, and documents related to the company\u2019s constitutional AI framework, he developed what he calls the \u201cDr. Frankenstein theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Under that theory, Gurley said he believes some Anthropic leaders are \u201cexcited about building a species that\u2019s superior to humans\u201d and view advanced AI as something more significant than software alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">On the podcast, the discussion broadened into concerns about AI market concentration and open-source development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">In April, co-panelist Chamath Palihapitiya warned that advanced AI amounted to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/tech\/26\/04\/51819978\/chamath-palihapitiya-says-a-digital-super-god-is-coming-for-tech-stocks-and-could-expose-a-debt-bomb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">digital super-god<\/a>,\u201d one capable of disrupting any company or sector and triggering a structural reset in how risky tech assets are priced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Disclaimer: This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Photo courtesy: Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benchmark Capital\u2018s Bill Gurley accused Anthropic of believing it is building a superior species on Saturday, calling the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,16565,15898,31685,16563,14912,8111,5893,7776,5896,5892,5891,7707,33019,19923,16566,21402],"class_list":["post-56673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-category-economics","tag-category-global","tag-category-macro-economic-events","tag-category-macro-notification","tag-category-market-summary","tag-category-markets","tag-category-news","tag-category-private-markets","tag-category-tech","tag-cms-wordpress","tag-pageisbzpro-bz","tag-tag-anthropic","tag-tag-benchmark-capital","tag-tag-benznews","tag-tag-chamath-palihapitiya","tag-tag-emvid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}