Is Communism Really the Only Answer?
AI White Collar Job Apocalypse, BIG TECH SURVEILLANCE And The Coming Alien Biosecurity Regime, Human Categorization, Humans Categorized as Expendable, Is Communism Really the Only Answer?
Is Dario Amodei's AI-safety oversight plan really a form of communism? Not literally—he isn't proposing state ownership or a planned economy—but handing frontier-AI oversight to an insular network of ideologically-aligned evaluators reveals the same instinct: a small circle of credentialed insiders deciding, on everyone else's behalf, what risks the public may take. The New York Post's account of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposed AI-safety oversight network raises a blunt question: when AI's leaders claim their systems may create a crisis beyond ordinary human control, why is their answer another insulated network of ideological insiders? The article portrays Amodei's preferred outside evaluator, Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR), as deeply connected to the Effective Altruism world, Anthropic's investors, and the same alignment-research community it is supposed to scrutinize. Meet Anthropic CEO…
