'Human extinction' never appeared in official Anthropic statements, but it did in OpenAI's
erikphoel · x · 2026-11-15
HumanHarlan pushes back on the perception that Anthropic constantly talks publicly about human extinction: the lab rarely raises the topic and downplays it when it does. Notably, the phrase "human extinction" has appeared in an official OpenAI statement, but never in any official Anthropic statement — a factual correction to how the two labs' safety rhetoric is commonly characterized.
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