Bridgewater Associates managing chief investment officer Greg Jensen discusses his views on AI safety and economic impacts in a Bloomberg podcast interview. Jensen, who says he was an early backer of both OpenAI and Anthropic, focuses on how far current AI models can go and what he considers key risks around model capability and safety.
Bloomberg reports that Jensen has also recently published an op-ed in The New York Times proposing a “token tax” as a policy tool intended to help mitigate job losses that AI may cause. In the interview, he argues for a stronger AI regulatory framework and says parts of the current AI debate are starting to resemble the pre-pandemic period in 2020, when the outlook and uncertainty around major disruption intensified.
Across the two Bloomberg pieces, the central angle is Jensen’s policy and safety perspective: one emphasizes his role leading Bridgewater’s AI strategy and his early involvement in major AI companies, while the other highlights his warnings about “human extinction risk” and the need for regulation. Both treat his comments as part of a broader effort to connect AI safety concerns with labor and macroeconomic effects.
