Anthropic's Amanda Askell: caught between safety skeptics and capability deniers
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-30
Anthropic researcher Amanda Askell quipped that she's "stuck in the middle with Claude" — flanked by safety skeptics on one side and capability deniers on the other, mocked by both communities.
Plinz reshared it to introduce the term "capability denialism": the claim that a given AI approach can never reach human performance, often despite contrary evidence and usually without any formal proof. The exchange distills the AI community's polarized divide over capability and safety narratives.
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