Tasha McCauley
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Tasha McCauley is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 28, 2023 and October 10, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “I’m not sure how Tasha McCauley got her seat”; “married to Tasha McCauley, one of the OpenAI board members”. It most often appears alongside Anthropic, OpenAI, Politico.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 28, 2023
- Last seen: October 10, 2024
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Related Pages
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- Anthropic (2 shared issues)
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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- Politico (2 shared issues)
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- Sam Altman (2 shared issues)
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- #57 (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- @GroundHogStrat (1 shared issues)
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- A.I. salons (1 shared issues)
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- Adam D’Angelo (1 shared issues)
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- Adam McKay (1 shared issues)
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- ADUs (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Open Philanthropy Project originally got one seat on the OpenAI board by supporting them when they were still a nonprofit; that later went to Helen Toner. I’m not sure how Tasha McCauley got her seat. Currently the provisional board is Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, and Larry Summers. Summers says he “believe[s] in effective altruism” but doesn’t seem AI-risk-pilled. Adam D’Angelo has never explicitly identified with EA or the AI risk movement but seems to have sided with the EAs in the recent fight so I’m not sure how to count him.
Another major endorsement came from SAG-AFTRA (formerly Screen Actors Guild), a politicially influential union of Hollywood creatives. Their union’s letter to the governor makes it sound like they're against AI copying their voices and stealing their jobs, and willing to support basically any anti-AI legislation no matter how distantly related to their specific concern. But a later open letter showed more specific interest in existential risks, and a few people in show business have been consistent allies. Joseph Gordon-Leavitt is a long-time effective altruist (and married to Tasha McCauley, one of the OpenAI board members who voted out Sam Altman last November). And I was also moved by support from Adam McKay, who directed of Don’t Look Up (a film about people ignoring an impending asteroid strike, which AI safety advocates praised as a good intentional or unintentional metaphor for the current landscape).