Anthropic’s ties to effective altruism and fears of AI catastrophe
Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey says a report she co-wrote explores Anthropic’s relationship with effective altruism and how fears of existential AI risk became influential at the company.
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Why build AI if you believe it has a meaningful chance of killing everyone? Keach Hagey says that question prompted her and Berber Jin to examine Anthropic’s relationship with effective altruism for The Wall Street Journal. She describes reporting that led to a San Francisco group house and a Berkeley co-working space funded with an Anthropic investor’s money. Hagey says the latter has become a central gathering place for those most worried about existential risk from AI.
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