2022 speculation: was Anthropic's rhetoric aimed at getting itself nationalized?
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-10-17
In a thread with Kelsey Tuoc, Blanche Minerva recalls a common 2022 speculation: Anthropic's loud safety rhetoric—claiming it would soon do things no sovereign state would allow a non-government actor to do—might have been a deliberate path toward nationalization. The author muses that timeline might have been the better one, in a discussion reflecting how frontier-lab governance debates have shifted.
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