The Anthropic fight comes down to one question: mechanism or storytelling?
vishalmisra · x · 2026-07-29
The author reiterates that the dispute is not about whether AI can be dangerous, but about whether researchers have correctly identified the mechanism.
He says that distinction separates science from storytelling, and it is the key question in evaluating claims about alarming model behavior.
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