Anthropic investor Lonsdale says AI firms stoking fear to sway policy ↧ ↧ Anthropic investor Lonsdale says AI firms stoking fear to sway policy Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic and the co-founder of technology company Palantir , said ​on Friday that efforts by some leading artificial intelligence companies to warn of existential risks from AI amounted to a dangerous ‌attempt to shape public policy.