First, in 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried provided $6.5 million to the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), which accounted for nearly all of its $6.7 million of funding revenue that year. Open Philanthropy (backed by Dustin Moskovitz) later contributed over $10 million starting in late 2022.

Holden Karnofsky (Open Philanthropy co-founder/former CEO) is married to Anthropic president Daniela Amodei and joined Anthropic in 2025 to work on responsible scaling. Dustin Moskovitz was an early investor in Anthropic’s 2021 $124M round. Luke Muehlhauser (Open Phil AI officer) sat on Anthropic’s board until 2024. Strong shared EA networks and personnel overlap.

Additionally, in 2022, Connor Leahy co-founded Conjecture, a London-based startup dedicated to scaling AI alignment research. Sam Bankman-Fried participated as an early angel investor alongside other notable tech figures such as Andrej Karpathy, Nat Friedman, and Patrick and John Collison. Leahy served as Conjecture's CEO until March 2026. He subsequently shut down the company after concluding that technical AI alignment would not be solved in time to prevent catastrophic outcomes, shifting his focus to policy advocacy as the US Executive Director of the nonprofit ControlAI.

Connor Leahy has also been running around the podcast circuit and also has ties to Anthropic and Sam Bankman-Fried.

I think all of this AI doom speak is coming straight from Anthropic in order to achieve regulatory capture. Open source and open weight models pose too much of a threat.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5922089&forum_id=2#50255340)