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2026-05-29

Is is true that AI company CEOs without children are the most reckless?

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• Quick Note
• I haven't been thorough in fact checking every piece of info here, minor mistakes are possible.

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• I don't have a strong opinion either way on the "having children makes you more altruistic" hypothesis that some of these socially right leaning political youtubers in the US spread. I am still trying to figure out how true this is.
• That being said, I have to point out the following evidence:
  • OpenAI
    • Sam Altman has no biological children but has adopted children as per public info. Likely believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates anyway.
      • (In the socially right-leaning worldview I am referring to, I think gay men adopting children don't really count.)
    • Greg Brockman has no children as per public info. Likely believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates anyway.
  • SSI
    • Ilya Sutskever has no children as per public info. Likely believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates anyway.
  • Anthropic
    • Dario Amodei has no children as per public info. Likely believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates anyway. Has supported a pause threshold in the past.
    • Daniella Amodei has one child as per public info. Likely believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates anyway. Has supported a pause threshold in the past.
    • Jared Kaplan has one child as per public info. Likely believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates anyway. Has supported a pause threshold in the past.
    • Jack Clark has a child as per public info. Tom Brown, Sam McCandlish and Chris Olah don't have children as per public info.
  • Deepmind
    • Demis Hassabis has two children as per public info. Likely believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates anyway. Supports a conditional pause.
    • Shane Legg has has no children as per public info. Likely believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates anyway.
  • xAI
    • Elon Musk has many children as per public info. Likely believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates anyway. Claims to have avoided creating a frontier AI company for some years because concerns around ASI risk.
  • Meta
    • Mark Zuckerberg has three children as per public info. Likely does not believes ASI is possible soon. Accelerates.
• None of the people listed above are close to old age.
• The evidence is not super strong, but this is some evidence that those with children are slightly less reckless, atleast within my worldview.

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