Bridgewater CIO Greg Jensen warns of AI's human extinction risk

Greg Jensen, managing chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates and early backer of OpenAI and Anthropic, stated on September 11, 2026, that artificial intelligence poses a genuine risk to human extinction.

3 reports · 2 independentus_mainstream · tech

Claim audit

No BS check run yet — press ⚖ to extract this story's claims and verify them against independent sources.

All coverage

Odd Lots: Bridgewater’s Jensen on AI’s Extinction Risk (Podcast)

rss:bloomberg-marketsus_mainstream18d ago kagi ↗

Greg Jensen was one of the earliest backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic, and at Bridgewater Associates, where he is the managing chief investment officer, he leads the hedge fund’s AI strategy. As an early adopter of the technology, he has a lot of thoughts on where things stand right now in terms of model capability and safety, as well as the broader economic impacts of AI. Just recently, he pub

Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real

rss:bloomberg-technologytech18d ago wire ×2 kagi ↗

Greg Jensen was one of the earliest backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic, and at Bridgewater, where he is the managing chief investment officer, he leads the hedge fund's AI strategy. As an early adopter of the technology, he has a lot of thoughts on where things stand right now in terms of model capability and safety, as well as the broader economic impacts of AI. Just recently, he published an o