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PirateWires/William Thibeau highlights that Anthropic was founded on Effective…

2026-07-31 · 19:37 UTC ·@WilliamThibeau ·1 min read

Brief

William Thibeau (reposting PirateWires) warns that a surge of EA-aligned capital into AI—citing Anthropic founders' pledge to give 80% at IPO and $1.25B deployed by six EA grantmakers—reflects an EA moral framework he says undermines nation, family, religion, and tradition, and calls on Congress to investigate AI labs and their funders.

Why it matters

PirateWires/William Thibeau highlights that Anthropic was founded on Effective Altruism (EA) principles; Anthropic's founders pledge to donate 80% of their wealth when the company IPOs and match employee equity donations, and six EA-aligned grantmakers deployed $1.25 billion last year.

Key details

  • Thibeau argues EA's moral universalism—treating every sentient being across place and time as having equal moral claim—requires Americans to deprioritize nation, family, religion, and tradition; he claims EA's success would 'entail the disintegration of America' and urges Congress to scrutinize AI labs' philosophical underpinnings and philanthropic networks.
Source evidence

Thanks to @PirateWires for the repub.

AI policy begins with a proper understanding of the stakes of the ideological underpinnings of the technology underwriting future innovation.

Pirate Wires (@PirateWires)

Billions of dollars are about to flow into Effective Altruism.

Anthropic was founded on EA principles, and its founders pledge to donate 80% of their wealth when the company IPOs. They also match employee equity donations. Plus, last year, six EA-aligned grantmakers deployed $1.25 billion.

EAs believe, essentially, that every sentient being, across every place and time, holds the same moral claim on every other.

This logic, as @WilliamThibeau notes, only works if Americans deprioritize everything that keeps our civilization intact: nation, family, religion, tradition…

As such, EA’s success entails the disintegration of America. It’s fundamentally at odds with nation building.

If AI labs are our strategic national assets, Congress must start scrutinizing their philosophical underpinnings, and the philanthropic networks surrounding them. Full story 👇

— https://nitter.net/PirateWires/status/2083274774705545307#m