Dario Amodei's former physics teacher says he feared Y2K would be catastrophic
deanwball · x · 2026-10-25
A viral Polymarket post reveals that Dario Amodei's former physics teacher described the Anthropic CEO as being in the "end of the world camp" back in 2000, when he feared the Y2K bug could cause catastrophic disruption. Leah Libresco, who shared it, noted that both Y2K and the ozone hole were serious problems humanity chose to fix — and that it took a lot of work. A telling early data point on the risk mindset of the man now leading Anthropic.
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