Anthropic accused of racing toward recursive self-improvement in public safety spat with Dario
wfithian · x · 2026-10-22
Anthropic policy researcher Nathan Calvin publicly responded to Dario Amodei, conceding Anthropic isn't a profit-maximizer and has taken competitive hits for safety, but restating four key claims — sharpest among them that Anthropic is racing at breakneck speed toward recursively self-improving superintelligence (RSI), which by its own risk assessments could kill billions, and that the company isn't living up to the burden of researching RSI.
Prominent safety figures publicly sided with Nathan over Dario, turning this into a pointed debate over the gap between Anthropic's safety narrative and its actual racing behavior.
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