Anthropic CEO's Woke Globalists: A Recipe for AI Disaster

Dario Amodei is out selling the public on an “outside team” that can regulate AI so it doesn’t, in his words, destroy the world. Fine. People are allowed to worry about doomsday. But the part that sticks is how quickly “independent oversight” turns into a familiar clubhouse, with deep ties to his old housemate and the Effective Altruism crowd. That’s not oversight. That’s alumni networking with a new coat of paint.

We’ve seen this movie: Silicon Valley builds something powerful, then asks for guardrails written by the same little circle that already agrees on the politics, the priorities, and the people who should be in charge. An “outside team” that shares the same social DNA is not outside. It’s a self-licking ice cream cone of credentials, grant money, and moralizing, where “saving humanity” conveniently means more authority for the same gatekeepers.

And spare us the apocalyptic sales pitch as a substitute for accountability. If Anthropic is serious, show us the names, the funding, the conflicts, the meeting notes, the decision rights. Tell us what happens when the “regulators” want content rules that look suspiciously like yesterday’s censorship playbook. The public isn’t asking for philosopher-kings. It’s asking for receipts. If this is about safety, it should stand up to sunlight.

The bigger worry isn’t that AI will “destroy the world.” It’s that a handful of ideologues will use safety language to lock in control over what models can say, what research can be published, and which companies get to compete. America can lead on AI without handing the keys to a woke globalist social circle. Regulation that looks like a friend group is a recipe for disaster, and voters should treat it the way they’d treat any other insider deal: with suspicion until proven otherwise.