Last summer, he announced the Stanford AI Alignment group (SAIA) in a blog post with a diagram of a tree representing his plan. He’d recruit a broad group of students (the soil) and then “funnel” the most promising candidates (the roots) up through the pipeline (the trunk).
See, it’s like marketing the idea, in a multilevel way
this is the most credulous goddamn journalist on earth and that’s saying something in tech