Debate: Did Dario Amodei's AI safety views really come from effective altruism?
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-22
A thread debates whether Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's safety stance is downstream of effective altruism. benjtodd argues Dario predates EA and wasn't shaped by it, while the other party insists a higher share of EAs were worried about AI risk before ChatGPT than the general public after HuggingFace. A snapshot of the ongoing argument over EA's role in shaping AI safety discourse.
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