Wildeford Urges Anthropic to Replace PR Team with Researchers
Peter Wildeford criticized Anthropic's official statements as overstating safety confidence, saying internal researchers disagree, and urged the company to let researchers speak directly instead of PR staff. He even used a Claude model to evaluate Anthropic's statement, which called it 'a resume rather than a response.'
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