Sacks describes Taibbi questioning lack of prosecutions after 2009 financial crisis and Greenwald breaking Snowden mass surveillance story.
“Matt was sort of like the the left wing firebrand, sort of populist firebrand on writing for Rolling Stone who back in 2009 was asking the question why the people who caused the great financial crisis, why no one was going to jail, And Glenn, you know, broke the Snowden story about how the government was engaging in mass surveillance”
Sacks says AI critics funded journalism fellowships at major outlets like NBC, Bloomberg, and Time through Future of Life Institute.
“These fellowships were funded by Future of Life Institute, which is a doomer group that thinks that AI is gonna become sentient and replace humans.”