Bao Yu Shares Subtitled Footage of Dario Amodei’s 2003 Speech Against the Iraq War

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

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.