Researcher argues Anthropic and EA funding shapes the AI safety research agenda
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-11
Data visualization researcher Gerard Sans argues that Anthropic and the effective altruism community have shaped AI safety, alignment, and welfare research through funding, grants, and Fellows programs — "manufacturing credibility for a premise they themselves designed" — and that the industry is catching on. The thread is an extension of his point that when people say "AI," they usually mean AI corporations.
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