Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev read it and responded: You’re worried about the wrong apocalypse. Tenev is talking his own book: Allowing retail shareholders to invest in AI startups would be great for Robinhood. Barring a collapse in AI valuations or a seismic redistribution of wealth like the proposed tax currently freaking out California billionaires, the gap may already be too big to close. Amodei might be overstating his threat, penning the AI era’s version of Kennan’s Long Telegram that puffs up an exaggerated threat. Or he’s right, and the billionaires can wait out the robot apocalypse in their bunkers or in space.