# More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils as Musk terms fears a ‘psyop’

> The day after a former Anthropic researcher made an apocalyptic public declaration about where AI is heading, more of the company's researchers and staff stepped forward to agree, posting their own dire warnings about the technology they help build. It is an unusual moment, employees at one of the most prominent AI startups openly saying, in public, that they are frightened of the trajectory. The reaction split predictably. Elon Musk and a number of conservative figures dismissed the warnings as a setup, with Musk going so far as to call the fears a psyop, framing the whole episode as manufactured alarm rather than genuine concern. That leaves the public with two irreconcilable stories about the same events, one in which insiders are bravely blowing the whistle and another in which they are engineering a narrative. Both cannot be true, and which one takes hold will shape how seriously policymakers treat the next warning. For now, the striking fact is simply how many people inside these labs are willing to say it out loud.

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## Wortins' read

The day after a former Anthropic researcher made an apocalyptic public declaration about where AI is heading, more of the company's researchers and staff stepped forward to agree, posting their own dire warnings about the technology they help build. It is an unusual moment, employees at one of the most prominent AI startups openly saying, in public, that they are frightened of the trajectory. The reaction split predictably. Elon Musk and a number of conservative figures dismissed the warnings as a setup, with Musk going so far as to call the fears a psyop, framing the whole episode as manufactured alarm rather than genuine concern. That leaves the public with two irreconcilable stories about the same events, one in which insiders are bravely blowing the whistle and another in which they are engineering a narrative. Both cannot be true, and which one takes hold will shape how seriously policymakers treat the next warning. For now, the striking fact is simply how many people inside these labs are willing to say it out loud.

## Source

[Read the full story at The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/10/anthropic-researchers-warn-ai-musk)

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