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Archival footage shows Dario Amodei opposing the Iraq War in 2003
- Who
- Bao Yu
- What
- shares subtitled footage of Dario Amodei’s 2003 speech opposing the Iraq War
What happened
Baoyu shares archival footage, surfaced by @dummerspast39, of 20-year-old Dario Amodei opposing the Iraq War at a Pasadena City Council meeting on March 10, 2003. Then a Caltech sophomore, Amodei presented a petition approaching 600 signatures and expressed distress over technology being used indiscriminately in war. Baoyu added Chinese and English subtitles and connects the speech to Amodei’s later role as Anthropic’s cofounder and CEO.
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The story so far
Bao Yu shared archival footage of Dario Amodei speaking against the Iraq War at a Pasadena City Council meeting in 2003, adding Chinese and English subtitles to the two-minute speech. The footage, surfaced by @dummerspast39, comes from the Pasadena city government’s meeting archive. Amodei, then a 20-year-old Caltech sophomore, presented a petition signed by nearly 600 Caltech faculty members and students at the March 10 meeting. He said he was distressed to see technology used indiscriminately in war. Bao Yu connected the speech to Amodei’s later role as Anthropic’s cofounder and CEO.
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