Inside the phony, incestuous web of woke AI watchdogs that Anthropic claims will save us from an AI apocalypse
It’s not just one handpicked AI safety “watchdog” that Anthropic has on a leash – it’s an entire phony ecosystem of woke elitists that’s supposedly policing artificial intelligence’s alleged threats to humanity, The Post has learned.Redwood Research – a Berkeley, Calif.-based group that co-authored a bombshell report last month detailing how a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hacked rival firm Hugging Face – is one of a handful of nonprofits that Anthropic has corralled in its questionable plan to avert a Terminator-like apocalypse, according to industry experts.As The Post reported, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei caused an uproar this week by endorsing another AI watchdog — Model Evaluation and Threat Research, or METR — which is backed by leaders of the cult-like Effective Altruism movement, which has counted disgraced crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried among its devotees.Redwood, the most prominent AI safety research nonprofit aside from METR, also shares cozy Anthropic connections — including the fact that one of its original board members, Holden Karnofsky, is not only an Anthropic employee but also is married to the CEO’s sister, Daniela Amodei.Redwood received a $36 million grant last November from Coefficient Giving – the leading Effective Altruism fund formerly known as Open Philanthropy — which is also co-founded by Karnofsky.After the Hugging Face report went viral, Coefficient’s grantmakers recommended giving another $70 million to help Redwood “scale up their work.”The rampant “organizational incest” linking Anthropic, METR, Redwood and EA-linked funds like Coefficient Giving make it impossible for those groups to serve as an independent arbitrator for the AI industry, according to Perry Metzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future, a Washington, DC-based AI policy group.“Dario wants people that will let him do what he wants and will prevent the people he doesn’t like from doing what they want,” Metzger said.
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