EA ecosystem criticized as funding- and hiring-incestuous, centered on Dustin Moskovitz
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-09-19
- A thread argues the EA/AI-safety ecosystem is extremely concentrated: most money comes from one person, Dustin Moskovitz, and organizations constantly hire from each other.
- Example: the Constellation Institute, originally part of Redwood Research, functions largely as a staff placement pipeline feeding Redwood, METR, the UK AI Safety Institute, and frontier labs.
- Citing a 2023 LessWrong critique of Redwood: members reported social pressure to defer to high-status figures; an Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving) exec sat on Redwood's board; and romantic relationships existed between Redwood leadership and their Open Philanthropy funders.
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