David Friedberg says Anthropic is using the same playbook religious institutions have been using for centuries "If you think back on the course of human history and the moments where systems were set up that created power structures that didn't exist before, they were all predicated on the simple notion that there's an existential threat." "You will all die. A deity, a god, some powerful system will come in and destroy you. "And because I can protect you, you must follow me, you must do what I say. It is the common system of human power and control structure to tell a narrative of existential threat and leverage that narrative into your solution being the path to protection and safety." "That is what sells votes, but it is also what created all these early structures where early religious institutions ran all the countries, told all the people what to do, were the power and command centers of the world, and in many parts of the world still are." "When you talk about, if you don't listen to me, God will damn you, God will shame you, God will destroy you, or some deity will come down and get you, this is the same psychological concept." "There is a story being told that you will all die. There's a 10% chance you will all die. If you don't let me control it, if you don't give me the power and the authority to control it, you will all die. Give me that power."