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benlivengood 2 days ago

Hold on; GiveWell Labs/OpenPhil/Coefficient Giving is older (2011) than Anthropic, the AI safety folks are way older than OpenPhil (~90s, older sci-fi), and it stretches the imagination to claim that your product will kill everyone in order to sell more of it. That's conspiracy theory territory. Even cigarette companies pretended to be harmless.

I don't think it's a secret that the safety folks (including "doomers") are funding a lot of anti-AGI articles and researchers. But they're generally at odds with the big labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta) about the basic concept. The Yudkowsky branch believe AGI/ASI is incredibly likely to take over and end life on Earth. The major labs think the worst that can happen is a few more publicly embarrassing hacks but that anything truly dangerous is a distant threat. ~most safety researchers fall somewhere in the middle.

Anthropic started as a mid-safety reaction to the way OpenAI was being operated but is by no means close to the "doomer" end of the spectrum.