Gerrit De Vynck

AI position

No x-risk mention

Covers the AI industry for the Post with emphasis on the power and claims of the big labs.

Sheet category (Jul 15, 2026 snapshot): No clear personal stance

Hand-added beat reporter; not part of the ranked 300 snapshot.

Why influential

Post platform puts his AI framing in front of the political class daily.

Who pays attention

Washington policy readers, tech accountability audience

Work samplesunvetted

• Anthropic asked Christian leaders for advice on Claude's moral future

  Apr 11, 2026 · article

  Co-written with Nitasha Tiku; covers Anthropic's summit with Christian theologians on Claude's moral/spiritual development, quotes Dario Amodei on AI consciousness.

• Anthropic's powerful new AI model raises concerns about high-tech risks

  Apr 1, 2026 · broadcast

  PBS NewsHour segment with Geoff Bennett on Anthropic's Mythos model and hacking-capability risks.

• How a 90-minute White House deadline sparked Silicon Valley's biggest AI fight

  Jun 15, 2026 · article

  Reporting on Trump administration pressure on Anthropic over its Fable/Mythos models.

• Trump's Anthropic restrictions rattle U.S. allies as AI leaders gather at G-7

  Jun 17, 2026 · article

  Covers export-control fallout on Anthropic amid G-7 gathering of AI lab leaders.

• Sam Altman and the chaos at OpenAI

  Nov 20, 2023 · podcast

  De Vynck explains the OpenAI board upheaval on the Post Reports podcast.

AI-world contactsunvetted

• Sam Altman — CEO, OpenAI

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · May 16, 2026 — Article examining questions about Altman's honesty raised during the Musk v. OpenAI trial.
  • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Nov 20, 2023 — De Vynck was the featured Post reporter explaining the Altman ouster/reinstatement chaos on the Post Reports podcast.

• Elon Musk — Founder, xAI

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Apr 28, 2026 — Reported on Musk's testimony in his OpenAI/Altman lawsuit trial in Oakland federal court.

• Dario Amodei — Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Apr 11, 2026 — Article (with Nitasha Tiku) reports Amodei has said he's open to Claude having some form of consciousness, in piece on Anthropic's meeting with Christian theologians.

• Geoffrey Hinton — Professor emeritus, Nobel laureate, University of Toronto

  • Quoted / citeddirectness unclassified · Jan 1, 2025 — De Vynck's Washington Post piece quotes Hinton, via Encode's amicus filing, saying letting OpenAI 'tear up' its nonprofit structure 'sends a very bad message to other actors in the ecosystem.'

• Dan Hendrycks — Executive Director, Center for AI Safety

  • Quoted / citedsource · direct quote · Jul 12, 2023 — Elon Musk talks xAI, AI superintelligence, aliens and more on Twitter — Reports his xAI appointment and quotes him saying the $1 salary was intended to preserve independence and freedom to criticize.