Kelsey Piper: The Cynical View of Anthropic Keeps Outperforming the Optimistic One
andersonbcdefg · x · 2026-10-21
Kelsey Piper writes that while Anthropic has made costly sacrifices out of conviction, the cynical view of the company has outperformed the optimistic one at predicting its behavior over the past year. Those sacrifices mostly track Dario's personal priorities (China, biosecurity), with far less clarity on sacrifices made for 'humanity not losing control to AI.' Quoted: Dario Amodei's response to Nathan Calvin, endorsing scrutiny of frontier AI companies while disagreeing in part and conceding some cited examples were Anthropic mistakes.
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