EA grant platform hires FTX's Caroline Ellison, drawing fire over alignment judgment
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-12
Manifund, a nonprofit grant marketplace, hired Caroline Ellison of FTX infamy — first on a work trial, then co-authoring a blog post about the hire. zetalyrae seizes on it: EAs couldn't recognize a human-level bad actor even with all evidence available, yet believe they'll tell when superhuman AI is genuinely versus fake aligned. The quip lands on both EA credibility and the core epistemic problem of alignment.
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