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NYT Profile: Amodei's Rationalist Roots and 200-Page Private Dossier on Altman and Brockman

Summary

NYT publishes a deep profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei tracing how his AI worldview was shaped by effective altruism, rationalism and forums like GiveWell. Reporters cite more than 200 pages of previously undisclosed private notes Amodei kept on Sam Altman and Greg Brockman during his OpenAI years, including one in which Amodei writes that Altman's 'words were almost certainly bullshit' and dismisses Brockman's idea of 'selling AGI to nuclear powers in the UN Security Council' as nearly treasonous.