AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei ran office dilemmas past a stuffed-animal “advisory council”
Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei and her husband kept a “personal advisory council” of stuffed animals to work through workplace problems, a habit that started at OpenAI and now sits beside a hard push for AI rules critics call market capture. Breitbart News reported that an Atlantic account, adapted from journalist Kevin Roose’s forthcoming book, describes […] The post Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei ran office dilemmas past a stuffed-animal “advisory council” appeared first on American Almanac .
Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei and her husband kept a “personal advisory council” of stuffed animals to work through workplace problems, a habit that started at OpenAI and now sits beside a hard push for AI rules critics call market capture. Breitbart News reported that an Atlantic account, adapted from journalist Kevin Roose’s forthcoming book, describes how Amodei and husband Holden Karnofsky assigned character profiles to plush toys and used them on office dilemmas. The practice began while both were still at OpenAI, years before Anthropic existed. Few colleagues knew. Those who did were never sure how seriously the pair treated the “advice.” In 2023, Amodei told Roose the toys helped her analyze different personality…Open