AGI Strategies

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Ed Zitron

Ed Zitron

EZPR founder; 'Where's Your Ed At' newsletter

PR executive turned newsletter writer; among the loudest voices challenging AI hype, claims of imminent AGI, and the financial sustainability of frontier-lab business models.

current Founder, EZPR; Author, Where's Your Ed At
homepage@edzitron

Strategy positions

AI skepticendorses

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Argues frontier-lab valuations are detached from the actual revenue and capabilities of the products; treats most AGI/transformative-AI rhetoric as a financial-marketing strategy.

OpenAI is a money pit propped up by VC delusion. The product doesn't pay for the compute, the compute doesn't produce a product worth its cost, and the entire thing is held together by hype.
✍ blogWhere's Your Ed At· Substack· 2024· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Ed Zitron's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Abhijit Banerjee

    Abhijit Banerjee

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT economist; 2019 Nobel laureate

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

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    First programmer; analytical engine theorist (1815–1852)

  • Aidan Gomez

    Aidan Gomez

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    CEO of Cohere; 'Attention Is All You Need' co-author

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay

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    Object-oriented programming and personal computing pioneer

  • Alex Hanna

    Alex Hanna

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    Director of Research at DAIR; Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

  • Andriy Burkov

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    ML engineer; 'The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book' author

Record last updated 2026-04-25.