“No, I don’t think you get it. WE are going to build AGI. And we’re going to do it safely.”
The recruiter asked him to pledge two-thirds of his equity, and it was unclear whether the offer depended on a yes. A co-founder closed the deal by saying the serious people in Washington trust him. His manager, wincing through a stomachache he couldn’t take time off for, explained that the safety lab’s real job was building AGI. Within months he was writing “I don’t feel safe at Anthropic” in his journal at 2 am.