Years before she became president of a company reportedly eyeing a $2 trillion IPO, Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei, the sister of CEO Dario Amodei, was running workplace problems past a panel of stuffed animals.
A piece published Wednesday in the Atlantic, adapted from journalist Kevin Roose’s forthcoming book, The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence, explains that Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei and her husband, Effective Altruism kingpin Holden Karnofsky, kept what they called a “personal advisory council” made up of stuffed animals, each with an assigned character profile, to help work through office dilemmas. The habit started before Anthropic existed, while...
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