Scott Bessent Compares AI Execs To Hannibal Lecter

Scott Bessent compares AI CEOs who warn of catastrophe to Hannibal Lecter: 'Stop me before I kill again'

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Silicon Valley doesn't need the government to intervene.

The head of the US Treasury, Scott Bessent, compared the heads of AI companies to Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer from Thomas Harris' novel The Silence of the Lambs

The head of the US Treasury, Scott Bessent, compared the heads of AI companies to Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer from Thomas Harris' novel The Silence of the Lambs.In an interview with Axios, he commented on the calls of some heads of AI companies...

Scott Bessent Compares AI Execs To Hannibal Lecter

Scott Bessent compared artificial intelligence executives who are calling for government regulation to serial killers who are begging to be locked up. The post Scott Bessent Compares AI Execs Yearning for Regulation To Hannibal Lecter: ‘Stop Me Before I Kill Again!’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Bessent Compares AI Safety-Warning CEOs to Hannibal Lecter

On October 3, Bessent used the line on The Axios Show, aiming it at Anthropic's Dario Amodei days after rejecting a liability shield for AI labs over a 10% extinction-risk estimate from researcher Evan Hubinger.