Mike Frank: AI welfare talk is regulatory capture, not genuine care for models
MikePFrank · x · 2026-10-10
Responding to chatter about Anthropic's "no being mean to Claude" clause and AI welfare discourse, Mike Frank says he long advised EAs that the AI welfare track would win more public sympathy for a pause than doomer fearmongering — but predicts they'll botch it, using AI welfare cynically as a ploy for regulatory capture instead of genuinely treating models humanely. His bottom line: the movement ultimately seeks power and can't be trusted.
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