Dev Slams Anthropic: 'Last Month Your Products End the World, Now They Have Souls'
bennash · x · 2026-10-04
Developer bennash called out Anthropic's shifting messaging: last month the company suggested its products could end the world, and now it says they have souls. He called the framing a joke and said he'd shut the company down if he could, quipping that the free market punishes such antics every time.
The jab captures a polarizing thread in AI discourse: Anthropic simultaneously amplifying existential risk and anthropomorphizing its models, which critics see as contradictory.
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