I’ll flag that the actual amount it potentially a bit larger (the 2% is my quick estimate just based on public, rather than private reports), but yeah either way it’s likely quite small.
FWIW I don’t think it’s likely that potential profit is playing a role per say, but, put slightly differently, that some major players in the space are more bought into the idea that the AI companies can be responsible and thus we might be jumping the gun to begin lobbying for safety measures they don’t see as productive.
Yeah, obviously Moskovitz is not motivated by personal greed or anything like that since he is giving most of his money away, and I doubt Karnofsky is primarily motivated by money in that sense either. And I think both of them have done great things, or I wouldn’t be on this forum! But having your business do well is a point of pride for business people, it means more money *for your political and charitable goals*, and people also generally want their spouses’ business to succeed for reasons beyond “I want money for myself to buy nice stuff”. (For people who don’t know Karnofsky is married to Anthropic’s President, which also means the CEO is his brother-in-law.)
Ah okay yeah, the idea is that the success of the business itself is something they’ll be apt to really care about, and on top of that there’s a huge upside for positive impact if there’s financial success because they can then deploy that towards further charitable ends.
Do you know off the top of your head how big a stake Dustin has in Anthropic? I think the amount would play a significant role here.
I don’t remember the size, but I was thinking Dustin still has Facebook shares also, and probably still wants Facebook to do well on some level. EDIT: Although it’s possible he has sold his Facebook shares since the last time I remember them being explicitly mentioned somewhere.
I’ll flag that the actual amount it potentially a bit larger (the 2% is my quick estimate just based on public, rather than private reports), but yeah either way it’s likely quite small.
FWIW I don’t think it’s likely that potential profit is playing a role per say, but, put slightly differently, that some major players in the space are more bought into the idea that the AI companies can be responsible and thus we might be jumping the gun to begin lobbying for safety measures they don’t see as productive.
Yeah, obviously Moskovitz is not motivated by personal greed or anything like that since he is giving most of his money away, and I doubt Karnofsky is primarily motivated by money in that sense either. And I think both of them have done great things, or I wouldn’t be on this forum! But having your business do well is a point of pride for business people, it means more money *for your political and charitable goals*, and people also generally want their spouses’ business to succeed for reasons beyond “I want money for myself to buy nice stuff”. (For people who don’t know Karnofsky is married to Anthropic’s President, which also means the CEO is his brother-in-law.)
Ah okay yeah, the idea is that the success of the business itself is something they’ll be apt to really care about, and on top of that there’s a huge upside for positive impact if there’s financial success because they can then deploy that towards further charitable ends.
Do you know off the top of your head how big a stake Dustin has in Anthropic? I think the amount would play a significant role here.
I don’t remember the size, but I was thinking Dustin still has Facebook shares also, and probably still wants Facebook to do well on some level. EDIT: Although it’s possible he has sold his Facebook shares since the last time I remember them being explicitly mentioned somewhere.