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Situational Awareness got the future right but misread the past

Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher, predicted AI-related stocks would rise, but they fell, and his leveraged bets with debt led to losses. His analysis, published in 'Situational Awareness,' correctly foresaw the future of AI but misread the market's reaction.

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Financial Times TechnologyLeopold Aschenbrenner thought AI-related stocks would go one way; they went the other. The mistake was funding the trades with debt

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