Miles Brundage analyzes sources of Anthropic's short timeline confidence
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-08-24
Miles Brundage speculates that Anthropic's internal confidence in short AGI timelines stems from:
- Concrete knowledge: Explicit details on upcoming training runs and compute ramps.
- Direct experience: Visceral confidence or fear gained from multiple scaling efforts.
- Social proof: Consensus within their community.
He notes that this evidence might not be fundamentally different from external extrapolation, but it carries more weight due to its concreteness and immediacy.
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