According to @timnitGebru, AI companies built an addictive tool using stolen data, exploited labor, and environmentally intensive compute that harms children, and are now seeking to monetize erotica, while referencing a related post by Sam Altman at x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128 (source: Timnit Gebru post on X on Oct 18, 2025: twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1979635074493792482; source: link to Sam Altman post provided in her message). For traders, high-profile ethics critiques can raise perceived regulatory and reputational risk for AI-exposed equities and AI-linked crypto tokens such as FET, AGIX, and OCEAN (source: Binance Research, The Surge of AI Narratives in Crypto, 2023: research.binance.com); negative headline events around misconduct typically coincide with abnormal stock underperformance (source: Karpoff, Lee, and Martin, Journal of Financial Economics, 2008: The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books). Regulators have also warned about misleading AI claims, exemplified by the U.S. SEC’s 2024 enforcement actions against advisers accused of AI-washing, highlighting headline risk to publicly traded AI firms and related digital-asset narratives (source: U.S. SEC press release dated March 18, 2024: sec.gov/news).