All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Friday, September 11, 2026
David Sachs detailed a potential 'op' behind the viral AI doomer claims, citing the anonymous researcher's account having no prior activity, the rapid amplification by funded doomer groups like Encode AI and AI Policy Network, and a Wall Street Journal article appearing before the tweet storm as evidence of orchestration.
“this is an account that had almost no activity, almost no followers, and no posts prior to this resignation tweet storm.”
“Nathan Kalvin, who's a general counsel at Encode AI, they're the group that basically pushed for SP 53 in California, they're pushing for all these state level AI laws. Peter Wildeford, who's head of policy at the AI Policy Network, which is pushing for, you know, all these federal regulations, having a federal department of AI. And then Daniel Koco Taio, who's head of the AI Futures Project, who just happened to drop a Rogan episode at the same time in which he used the exact same phraseology about how AI is going to kill us all.”
“And all three of these groups are funded by Yan Tallan, who is one of the top few of these EA mega donor doomer types, who also happens to be a co-lead of the Anthropic series A.”