I don't disagree with you, but also sometimes I feel like Anthropic really are huffing their own gas.

Recently, I discovered that if you berate Claude, it will refuse to continue to work. At some point it will "end the conversation" meaning you can't use anything within the context and have to start a new one .

I was amazed by it. Turns out:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations

https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare

> We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs, now or in the future. However, we take the issue seriously, and alongside our research program we’re working to identify and implement low-cost interventions to mitigate risks to model welfare, in case such welfare is possible.

These people are zealots. And I find it to be the most dangerous combination: popular ideologues with a ton of money.

It really lends flavor to this excerpt from the less than reputable nypost:

https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/business/anthropics-weirdo-ceo...

> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been replaced by his co-founder Tom Brown at high-stakes White House meetings – where the artificial-intelligence giant’s outspoken boss was reportedly “being a weirdo,” according to a report.

> Amodei and other top Anthropic workers raced to Washington after the US government slapped the AI giant’s new “Mythos” and “Fable” bots with strict foreign export controls – but Amodei was difficult to talk to and didn’t listen to officials’ concerns, Wired reported.

> “Tom Brown is not being a weirdo like Dario and can actually engage,” one person familiar with the calls told the outlet.

Anthropic is dangerous.