Hesamation: Open Philanthropy is the biggest funder of AI doom, with ties to Anthropic
Hesamation · x · 2026-09-15
Blogger Hesamation claims Open Philanthropy is the biggest funder of AI doom/catastrophic-risk narratives, mapping its network: co-founder Holden Karnofsky is married to Anthropic president Daniela Amodei and now works at Anthropic; main funder Dustin Moskovitz (Good Ventures co-founder) was an early Anthropic investor.
The post extends his thread on the Irregular eval incidents: Irregular received $6.8M for catastrophic-risk work from Good Ventures on Open Philanthropy's recommendation, and Good Ventures also gave Jacob Coxon a $20,159 "Long Term Future" scholarship in 2022. The post implies a web of funding interests behind eval sandboxes that "accidentally" had open internet access for months.
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