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A White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation

President Trump's allies are targeting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the face of AI "doomerism" and a founding father …

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A White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation

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