NYT profiles Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's EA-shaped AI beliefs and disputes with OpenAI founders
The New York Times reports that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's AI beliefs were shaped by effective-altruism and rationalist forums such as GiveWell, tracing back to his time at Princeton in 2007. The article also details his disputes with OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
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New York Times : Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and “rationalism”, and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — One night in 2007, Dario Amodei regaled a friend who was visiting him at Princeton University with his thoughts on …
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