Neolab Onboarding: OpenAI and Anthropic Both Racing to the Bottom on Safety
nabla_theta · x · 2026-08-18
A satirical "new lab onboarding" post: OpenAI was founded to be the good guys yet ended up racing to the bottom on safety by its own hand; Anthropic tried to be better and failed similarly — "now it is our turn to be the good guys."
The dark humor captures widespread disillusionment with safety practices at frontier labs.
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