> if powerful AI is coming regardless, Anthropic believes it's better to have safety-focused labs at the frontier than to cede that ground to developers less focused on safety (see our core views).

It used to be that only skilled men trained to wield a weapon such as a sword or longbow would be useful in combat.

Then the crossbow and firearms came along and made it so the masses could fight with little training.

Democracy spread, partly because an elite group could no longer repress commoners simply with superior, inaccessible weapons.