Rise of the AI-ristocracy
TL;DR
This is neither your father’s, your grandfather’s, nor your great-great-grandfather’s philanthropy. | Olga Aleksandrova for Vox Well before he became CEO of one of the most valuable startups of all time, Dario Amodei was a 26-year-old PhD student studying biophysics at Princeton, obsessing over how his money would leave its mark on the world.
Nauti's Take
The AI boom is creating a new donor class, and the potential is real: money given early and measured by outcomes can move faster than classic foundations do in decades. The problem starts when the same people trigger the disruptions and then decide which consequences are worth softening.
Founders can learn from the methodology, everyone else should ask who granted this group its mandate.
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