Some Anthropic veterans are reportedly buying remote land in case "AI goes awry"

The WSJ reports that some of Anthropic's earliest employees are considering buying remote US land to relocate if AI "goes awry," per an industry colleague. The report ties Anthropic's and OpenAI's earliest hires to a Bay Area Effective Altruism doomer network that has long gamed out catastrophic scenarios, from supervolcanoes to asteroid impacts. Eliezer Yudkowsky, who warned of uncontrolled AI in the mid-2000s, is described as the subculture's intellectual godfather. THE DECODER covered the report.