Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei and husband used stuffed-animal ‘advisory council’ for workplace conflicts: report

Source: New York Post

Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei used stuffed animals to work through office problems, giving them names and personalities for “managerial role-playing,” according to a report. The sister of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and her husband Holden Karnofsky used the toys as a “personal advisory council,” according to the piece published Wednesday in The Atlantic. The bizarre practice predated Anthropic’s launch and took place while the power couple was still at OpenAI, according to the article, which was adapted from journo Kevin Roose’s forthcoming “The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence.