AnalysisPolicySeptember 17, 2026

Essay argues AI safety movement traces back to Yudkowsky's Berkeley scene

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A Bluesky thread argues AI safety's intellectual center is a sex cult started by fan fiction author Eliezer Yudkowsky, citing his advisory meetings with Bernie Sanders and his role connecting Shane Legg and Demis Hassabis to Peter Thiel for DeepMind funding. It notes Dario Amodei was identified as an Effective Altruism community member in 2013 and that Anthropic papers still cite Yudkowsky.

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