Situational Awareness is a hedge fund that has just taken a spectacular dive. Its name was adopted from the title of an essay by the fund’s 24-year-old German founder, Leopold Aschenbrenner, exploring the promises and perils of AI ‘superintelligence’. Many people who thought Aschenbrenner himself was super-intelligent gave him money to invest and, for a

Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness lost 67% in July, forcing a $16 billion portfolio sale to Citadel after margin calls.

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