AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult in Berkeley
An opinion essay claims AI safety is driven by a Berkeley circle around Eliezer Yudkowsky.
A Verysane opinion essay claims mainstream AI safety discourse is centered on Eliezer Yudkowsky and Bay Area rationalist and effective-altruist networks, including MIRI and LessWrong. It cites alleged historical ties to DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic and argues those networks influence AI policy. The piece is cultural commentary, not a vulnerability, incident report, or research finding.
- Organizations
- MIRIOpenAIAnthropicDeepMindFuture of Life Institute
- Countries
- United States
From the original article
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There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is a predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved want to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in AI Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas.
By martythemaniak · verysane.ai
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