Leaked note: Human CEO says he will ultimately pursue investment in the Gulf state

Humanity is a plan According to the Slack message, it calls for investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar CEO Dario Amody It was sent to staff on a Sunday morning.

Comparing the pros and cons, Amodei acknowledged in his memo that accepting money from Middle Eastern leaders is likely to enrich the “dictators.” “This is a real downside and I’m not excited about it,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, I think ‘bad people shouldn’t benefit from our success.’

This message arises as AI companies compete to secure the enormous amount of capital they need to train and develop frontier AI models. January, Openai announcement It receives financial support from a $500 billion data center project called Stargate and MGX, a state-owned Emirati investment company. Four months later, I was working announcement “We had planned to build a data center in Abu Dhabi as part of our push to help foreign governments work together with the US to build sovereign AI capabilities.

“As an American company on the frontier of AI development, we have always believed that the supply chain for frontier AI model development should be in the American soil to maintain our lead,” humanity spokesman Christopher Narty said in a statement. “As Dario said before, we fundamentally share the benefits of AI and believe in serving the Middle East and regions around the world in line with our use policy.”

In May, President Donald Trump toured the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as part of a four-day trip focused on economic investment. Cabal, a high-tech leader, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang; Participation He was for a meeting with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Human leadership was particularly lacking.

In his memo, Amody admitted that the decision to pursue investment from the authoritarian regime leads to accusations of hypocrisy. In an essay entitled “A Machine of Loving Grace,” Amodey writes: “Democracy needs to be able to set the terminology that will bring powerful AI into the world to prevent human rights violations in authoritarian countries.”

In 2024, humanity decided not to accept money from Saudi Arabia, citing national security concerns. All CNBC. The news came when FTX, a failed cryptocurrency exchange, is in bankruptcy proceedings, and nearly 8% of humanity’s interests were put for sale. Ultimately, a majority of these stakes went to ATIC Third International Investments, a UAE company. At the time, the investment was worth around $500 million.

Currently, humanity appears poised to accept the money of the Gulf state, but the company has not said whether it has changed its stance on Saudi Arabia in particular. “There’s a really huge amount of capital in the Middle East, and it’s simply over $10 billion,” Amodei wrote in a memo. “If you want to stay in the frontier, accessing this capital can make a huge profit. Without it, it would be quite difficult to stay in the frontier.”