Anthropic exec's "we tried to warn the world" draws accusations of AI-lab hypocrisy
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-24
Jason Clinton of Anthropic wrote on X: "yes. it was always going to be this way. we tried to warn the world."
The post drew immediate pushback: critics argued it's audacious for AI companies to cast themselves as "warning us" about the very thing they go to work every day to build — reigniting the debate over frontier labs' warn-while-building safety stance.
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