Really? Palantir cofounder on AI's threat: 'We’re on top of it’

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale says everything is going to be fine.

Christie Hemm Klok for The Washington Post via Getty Images Turns out humanity has nothing to worry about.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale said Sunday the world "is going to be alright, guys." His comments came as top AI leaders warn that advanced systems could pose grave risks.

Everything's fine! Take it from the cofounder of Palantir.

In an X post on Saturday, Joe Lonsdale brushed aside the salient worry that advanced AI systems could cause mass human extinction , a concern that numerous engineers and leaders from frontier AI labs have raised in recent days and weeks.

"The world is going to be alright, guys," Lonsdale said.

"Leaders have big responsibilities and challenges ahead, but it doesn't help to scare everyone.

We are on top of it." That's unlikely enough to calm the nerves of a human population that's been repeatedly told that AI could take control and do all manner of untoward things, including taking everyone's jobs .

After Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon quit the company this week and issued dire warnings that frontier AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are "gambling with our lives," numerous leaders echoed his concern in posts and essays.

On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a blog post that AI swarms could soon take over the entire internet.

He called for more stringent safety regulations and a global, coordinated slowdown on AI development.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue all said they agreed with Amodei.

Lonsdale? Not so much.

Lonsdale is a famously conservative contrarian.