The man who turned $225 million into $13.7 billion said something two years ago that the entire AI industry is still cat…
Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-05-28
Milk Road AI highlights Leopold Aschenbrenner's two-year-old claim that despite widespread public discussion of AI safety, almost no one in the industry is actually doing safety work.
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Topics: ai-safetyleopold-aschenbrennerai-industry-critique
Claims
- Leopold Aschenbrenner argued that the AI industry talks extensively about safety while very few practitioners actually work on it.
- This observation was made approximately two years before this tweet and the author claims the industry has still not caught up to it.
- Aschenbrenner is identified as the person who turned $225 million into $13.7 billion, lending weight to his credibility framing.
Key quotes
Everyone is talking about AI safety but almost nobody is actually working on it.
That is not a hot take, that is Leopold.