Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings, urges focus on upside
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman pushed back on the prevailing AI doomsday narrative, quipping that "some of the leaders in the AI world maybe shouldn't be allowed to talk in public." He argued the industry is over-focused on AI risks while potential benefits are overlooked, offering the example of grandchildren who would "never meet anybody who dies of cancer." Feldman said powerful technologies inevitably raise the question of misuse and should be reasonably regulated, acknowledged that the data center industry has done a poor job engaging US local communities, and named Brazil, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Mexico and Sweden as markets more welcoming to data center construction. The report notes that Cerebras customers include OpenAI, Block, Figma, GSK and Lovable, giving Feldman a commercial stake in AI's success.
It highlights an open split between a compute vendor and parts of the frontier-lab world over AI risk messaging, with potential influence on regulation and public debate.