Anthropic CEO: AI safety people have no special insight into AI's future, their bias is expected
robleclerc · x · 2026-09-09
Anthropic CEO Rob LeClerc argued that AI safety people don't have special insight into the future of AI — they entered the field because of fear of AI, and their bias is expected. A rare public jab at the safety community from a frontier lab executive.
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