Trump allies circulate a memo in the White House making Dario Amodei the face of "SI doomerism"
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The debate over the pace of SI is turning into an ordinary political war of labels, and that is a risk for a company that asks to slow down.
The memo, which reached Axios, was written by a Trump political adviser who does not work in the White House. It calls effective altruism a cult that "built the SI apocalypse pipeline", with Dario and Daniela Amodei as its key figures; the movement allegedly puts "foreigners above citizens, shrimp above families" and "possible machine minds above Americans". Anthropic has distanced itself from the EA label before. The attack coincides with Anthropic's preparation for a record IPO and the congressional elections.
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