There are alarmingly few degrees of separation between moral paragon of the AI industry Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Jeffrey Epstein.
According to a new investigation from the Wall Street Journal, Amodei’s wife Cami Clark communicated with Epstein for several years while trying to get the deceased sex criminal and accused sex trafficker to invest in her women-focused porn company.
In March 2011, Clark reached out to Epstein after being introduced to him by John Brockman, a literary agent who helped connect Epstein with scientists and tech figures, emails released by the Justice Department showed.
“Hello Jeffrey! We would love to have dinner with you this evening,” Clark wrote to Epstein, sending him her cellphone number.
A week later, Clark sent another email to Epstein with an attachment.
“We thought you and the ladies might enjoy the script/treatment for our first four films, American Girl in Paris. A little nsfw,” she wrote.
Clark reached out to Epstein a year later to pitch her company again, but Epstein didn’t remember her at first.
“im sorry, who is this,” he wrote.
“We have the free luxury porn company,” she reminded him. “Does that ring a bell?”
“yes,, a loud gong,” Epstein replied.
In an attempt to get Epstein to invest in her venture, Clark said she had hired talent from the production companies of Oprah Winfrey and Ashton Kutcher.
“Are you still interested?” she asked.
Epstein, who was a registered sex offender after being convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008, replied: “Can’t do sex TV.”
Clark didn’t give up. She switched tack to pitching him on her “social dieting app + website geared toward women,” which collected data on their nutrition, menstrual cycles, mood, and location.
The WSJ found that their correspondence continued for at least two years. Clark later invited Epstein to a housewarming party in Manhattan, and added him on LinkedIn.
Clark has been married to Amodei for four years, and began dating him in 2014. While she doesn’t have a job at Anthropic, she’s thought to be one of the most influential figures at the company, steering Amodei’s decisions and helping him liaise with politicians and investors with her charm.
Her ties to Epstein will be heavily scrutinized as Anthropic heads towards a potentially multi-trillion dollar IPO.
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