"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." An X post by a former employee of both OpenAI and Anthropic went viral and is prompting big questions.

On today’s Big Take podcast, host Sarah Holder and Bloomberg’s Mike Shepard talk through what an AI safety reckoning could look like — and whether an industry in the midst of intense competition can slow down.  

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Moonshot Secretly Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says 

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Hosted by Sarah Holder; Produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Guest: Mike Shepard; Edited by Naomi Shavin and Aaron Edwards. Fact-checking by Brunella Tipismana Urbano; Engineering by Sean Carter. Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.

"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." An X post by a former employee of both OpenAI and Anthropic went viral and is prompting big questions.
On today&rsquo;s Big Take podcast, host Sarah Holder and Bloomberg&rsquo;s Mike Shepard talk through what an AI safety reckoning could look like &mdash; and whether an industry in the midst of intense competition can slow down.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-09/anthropic-worker-quits-over-ai-firms-gambling-with-our-lives?srnd=undefined">Anthropic Worker Quits Over AI Firms &lsquo;Gambling With Our Lives&rsquo;</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/moonshot-secretly-routed-user-requests-through-claude-anthropic-says?srnd=phx-anthropic">Moonshot Secretly Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says</a>&nbsp;</li>
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Hosted by Sarah Holder; Produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Guest: Mike Shepard; Edited by Naomi Shavin and Aaron Edwards. Fact-checking by Brunella Tipismana Urbano; Engineering by Sean Carter. Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.

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So Could AI 'Kill Us All'?

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