What Ryan Broderick thinks about OpenAI

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1. 21 Oct 2026

   Our readingCompanies with large existing non-AI user bases probably don't need to market AI with end-of-the-world rhetoric.

   Anthropic

   Their wordsIt may also explain why these two companies don't constantly talk about AI causing the end of world, unlike Anthropic or OpenAI. You probably don't have to resort to such gauche effective altruist catastrophizing if you have pre-existing non-AI users to market to.

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