Researchers call out Anthropic: frontier-race justified by pushing regulation it then doesn't push
peterwildeford · x · 2026-11-09
AI safety researcher Nathan Calvin notes that Dario Amodei has argued one way Anthropic justifies staying at the frontier — with its associated risks — is by being effective at pushing for strong AI regulation. Calvin thinks Anthropic's track record here is more complex than implied.
Peter Wildeford shared it with a sharper take: Anthropic's framing is "slowing down? my strategy of racing so fast we gain credibility to push for strong regulation beats that" — and then not actually pushing for strong regulation. A substantive critique of Anthropic's frontier-plus-regulation narrative.
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