Silicon Valley has a crisis of (over) confidence

From a young age, it was clear that Leo Aschenbrenner was a genius. Born in Berlin to a pair of doctors, he graduated from Columbia as valedictorian at the age of 19. After brief stints at FTX and OpenAI, he published a viral essay, Situational Awareness, that took Silicon Valley by storm and launched a hedge fund of the same name. As Theo Baker reported in The Atlantic, Aschenbrenner became known as the “Nostradamus of AI,” delivering insight where others only offered confusion. “I ca...