Lab-endorsed safety standards would especially help open source, argues Anthropic regulation skeptic
willcb · x · 2026-09-13
- The author pushes back on fears that Anthropic is spearheading safety-motivated regulatory barriers, recalling how poorly its last attempt went.
- He argues for a public conversation on scaling safely and converging on best practices: lab-endorsed standards for auditing environments, monitoring reward hacking, and strengthening aligned priors in midtraining benefit everyone, especially open source, and flow naturally from opt-in third-party evaluation.
- Even if it evolves into "every training run above X flops gets an ABC org code check," that's not a big deal in his view.
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