In today’s Time article about Anthropic, Daniela Amodei says about EA,
“The same way that you might say some people overlap with a political ideology in some ways, but don’t have a political affiliation—that’s more how I would think about it”
That’s a notable change from her March 2025 comments to Wired:
“I’m not the expert on effective altruism. I don’t identify with that terminology. My impression is that it’s a bit of an outdated term.”
Agreed, I think it’s reasonably read as saying “we’re ‘lowercase’ effective altruists, even though we don’t identify with the community or organizations.” It’s probably not helpful to speculate further here (is this just the optimal PR play? or are they being honest?), but regardless it seems clearly better than whatever was happening in that Wired article.