Anthropic’s open-weights wording draws criticism over its AI safety stance
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-28
- A long X thread argues that Anthropic’s public wording on open-weights is carefully edited: it says the company has never advocated a ban on open-weights models, while the rest of the letter is read as supporting restrictions on capable open-weights models.
- The post quotes a paper by Andrew Critch and Jacob Tsimerman titled A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence, using it to frame the broader AI-safety conversation.
- The core claim is less about a single sentence and more about how Anthropic’s PR framing can be technically true while still pushing a more restrictive policy position.
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