The Worst Are Full Of Passionate Intensity: An Anthropology of AI Safety
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“Why do they do lie so much?”
Along with Nirit Weiss-Blatt, I have done some of the most thorough financial reporting on Effective Altruism and AI Safety. Dustin Moskovitz, AI Safety’s largest donor after Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest, gave Biden ~100M. They spent 40M on media, including creating entire news articles where the publisher, journalist, and all subjects are Doomers. They paid for 58/100 of the TIME 100 AI profiles. They spent millions paying religious NGOs for statements on AI. Their outright lying about the laws they support, why they support them, and what they themselves said in the past, far exceeds any…
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