Sitaraman: Anthropic likely won't fracture over EA controversies due to shared baseline
Deepa Sitaraman · Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War · Dec 4, 2023 · at 36:59
WSJ reporter Deepa Sitaraman discusses whether internal debate over Effective Altruism could destabilize AI company Anthropic.
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“Will they be split up by it? Probably not just because they are all coming from the starting point that EA is good. It's just maybe the execution is a problem or we are misunderstood and it's a public issue.”
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