I have to imagine that this could be the result of Anthropic C-Levels catastrophizing to push the idea their product is so powerful that it is also very dangerous and that opened them up to the government responded in kind. In other words I have to imagine they probably did this to themselves and should probably dial down the catastrophizing.
Anthropic has been trying to be a trust me bro and an I know better than you steward. All while Dario has been crying wolf since 2017. Not that I like the current administration. They are horrible human beings. But this effective altruism first from SBF and now from Amodei kills me too.
There is nothing worse than very highly intellectual people thinking they are entitled to make decisions for the rest of us.
They fully own this. They have built a narrative so powerful that now the government is going to shut them down.
Meanwhile OpenAI, who own their own data centers, infrastructure government officials, and are being smart about all this, will reap some of the benefits. They are loosing too.
Anthropic did indeed dig their own grave, and it saddens me. Fable was an amazing model. First of its kind. I will miss it.
Still let’s not forget: this was a two week trial. After that it would have been over, except for the enterprise customers.
Apologies for the tone of my post. It’s not easy to be neutral and unbiased. I am just so angry at all this nonsense. At home I got kids, and they are more mature than many of these people who are just ruling over the world.
>https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
Dario even called for export restrictions just 2 days ago, though he wanted it limited to chips. But the entire post is about increased regulation.
Hard not to see this as a you reap what you sow scenario.