I think it’s fair to say most had decent respectability.
Anthropic hired heavily from that pool so it’s astonishing how it turned out.
In this case they want to prevent a nation that censors its citizenry, puts/disappears dissidents into concentration camps for decades, and makes its own human rights lawyers literally eat their own shit, before raping and/or murdering them, from reaching superintelligence.
In this light, some client side code to potentially identify and ban the Chinese labs to slow them down by even a few days, is totally reasonable.
I have a feeling they will eventually drop the facade of “we’re the nice and ethic people” and will work with palantir so they can survive the future: ipo and models bans.
They've done a bunch of things that hurt their valuation to stick to their red lines. To me it just reads as unsupported cynicism to call it a facade.