Dario Amodei Spoke Against the Iraq War at 20

What happened

In a 2003 Pasadena City Council meeting, 20-year-old Dario Amodei, then a Caltech sophomore, spoke against the Iraq War and presented a petition signed by nearly 600 Caltech faculty and students. He said he was distressed to see technology used indiscriminately in war. The post says Amodei later co-founded Anthropic with former OpenAI colleagues; the footage is archived by the Pasadena city government: https://pasadena.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=25

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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.