{"slug": "situational-awareness-got-the-future-right-but-misread-the-past", "title": "Situational Awareness got the future right but misread the past", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# Situational Awareness got the future right but misread the past\n\nSource:\n\n[Financial Times Technology](https://www.ft.com/technology)Leopold Aschenbrenner thought AI-related stocks would go one way; they went the other. The mistake was funding the trades with debt\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/situational-awareness-got-the-future-right-but-misread-the-past", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/situational-awareness-got-the-future-right-but-misread-the-p-65ne", "published_at": "2026-08-01 04:00:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-01 06:32:52.487279+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Leopold Aschenbrenner", "OpenAI", "Financial Times"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/situational-awareness-got-the-future-right-but-misread-the-past", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/situational-awareness-got-the-future-right-but-misread-the-past.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/situational-awareness-got-the-future-right-but-misread-the-past.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/situational-awareness-got-the-future-right-but-misread-the-past.jsonld"}}