AI companies' founding narrative that they were the good guys addressing real risks has eroded and is no longer as credible for them to present publicly.

“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”

“coded some it's not something they can really save with a straight face so much anymore and also there are lots of under lots of political pressure you know to get investors and to ward off regulation and stuff like that so so the rationalization wheels are continuing to turn and they're coming up with new narratives to justify what they're doing you”