Nathan Calyon presses Anthropic: lobbying to keep governments from stopping recursive self-improvement
wfithian · x · 2026-10-23
The chain centers on AI safety researcher Nathan Calvin's public follow-up to Dario Amodei: he concedes Anthropic isn't best modeled as a profit-maximizer and acknowledges its competitive hits for safety, but restates his core claim — Anthropic is racing toward recursively self-improving superintelligence (RSI), which by its own assessment could be catastrophic, while lobbying in a bill to make it harder for states and the federal government to stop RSI. The retweeter notes Dario is 'keeping his eye on the ball' even as Anthropic claims to be at the cusp of the most dangerous thing in human history.
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