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AI and policy leaders debate web of effective altruism in AI security | The AI Beat
AI and policy leaders expressed a range of opinions and concerns about effective altruism's influence on AI security in DC circles.
In my December piece, I detailed the concerns of Anthropic CISO Jason Clinton and two researchers from RAND Corporation about the security of LLM model weights in the face of threats from opportunistic criminals, terrorist groups or highly-resourced nation-state operations. My coverage was prompted by Brendan Bordelon’s ongoing Politico reporting on this issue, including a recent article which quoted an anonymous biosecurity researcher in Washington calling EA-linked funders “an epic infiltration” in policy circles. As Washington grapples with the rise of AI, Bordelon wrote, “a small army of adherents to ‘effective altruism’ has descended on the nation’s capital and is dominating how the White House, Congress and think tanks approach the technology.”
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