Early AI companies presented their founding narrative as acknowledging real risks and inviting people to join because the companies were the good guys.

“when these companies were fresh and young and idealistic their their founding mythology was basically yes the risks are real and that's why you should come work at our company because we're the good guys and so when that was still fresh and still like you know the main thing they were saying they were talking about it a lot but then now when their their sort of like founding myth is sort of like kind of laughable and it's like very much not something they can say with a straight it's eroded it's”