Joe Weisenthal

AI position

Aware of x-risk

Hosted Anthropic's Jack Clark and METR researchers on extinction risk and recursive self-improvement, but is on record as "not an AI doomer."

Why influential

Shapes market and policy expectations by interpreting economic data, corporate decisions and regulatory choices for influential professional audiences. Primary policy lanes: markets; macroeconomics; industrial policy; technology.

Who pays attention

Traders, economists, regulators, investors, supply-chain specialists and policy staff

Work samples

• Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier

  Jun 19, 2026 · podcast

  Hour-long interview with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and head economist Peter McCrory covering recursive self-improvement prep, AI safety, human extinction risk, and job loss.

• Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence

  Apr 25, 2026 · podcast

  Interview with METR's Chris Painter (President) and Joel Becker on the viral time-horizon capability chart and AI benchmarking.

• Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute

  Jun 13, 2026 · podcast

  Interview with AMP PBC founder and former a16z partner Anjney Midha on compute markets and utilization.

• Joe Weisenthal is not an AI doomer

  May 19, 2026 · article

  Semafor profile/interview where Weisenthal explains his skeptical-of-doom stance on AI's economic and societal impact.

AI-world contacts

• Jack Clark — Co-founder, Head of Policy, Anthropic

  • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Jun 19, 2026 — Hour-long Odd Lots interview with Anthropic co-founder Clark and economist Peter McCrory on AI safety, recursive self-improvement, and extinction risk.

• Chris Painter — President, METR

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Leads METR, an AI safety evaluation nonprofit; interviewed on Odd Lots about capability benchmarking.

• Joel Becker — Technical staff (evaluations), METR

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — METR researcher interviewed on Odd Lots about AI time-horizon/capability charts.

• Anjney Midha — Founder, AMP PBC, AMP PBC (formerly Andreessen Horowitz)

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — AI infrastructure/compute figure and early Anthropic investor, interviewed on Odd Lots about compute economics.