When you are running black weapons programs in broad daylight you are now guilty by default on one of two of the prongs of Hanlon's Razor, and I don't care which they prefer to hang for as long as they hang.
Sure Anthropic is not perfect. But it's a coordination problem. They're in a race and safety/restraint is a handicap. That's why they're begging for regulation (and just get accused of attempting regulatory capture.) Why isn't there another lab outcompeting Anthropic on safety? They all died because the market can't support it.
Certainly the industry deserves criticism, but if you really want to change it you're better off changing the incentives.
I think the direction has been pretty positive so far. Models are getting better, and things seem to be roughly fine. That, of course, might change in the future.
Everyone is acting badly to some considerable degree, but I find it fairly easy to distinguish between US model labs and North Korea.
Do you now? Remember the girls school bombing in Iran, of which we still don't know if an AI agent was involved in the target planning?
I do unterstand why a (assuming here) US citizen might sleep all sound and comfy, but to the rest of the world the distinction is neither as clear nor as comforting.
As a European, all I know is that we cannot trust the USA anymore, and being so utterly dependent on them to not fuck up the most important technological revolution in our history so far over greed, cronyism, incompetence... it is terrifying.
They suppress the news --> proof of malicious intent.
They disclose the news --> proof of malicious intent.
https://xcancel.com/AISafetyMemes/status/2014018200325722348...
I don't think we should be running cover for continued reckless AI development.
Though, Altman has said that something like the IAEA for AI is needed.
That might give us more time to think through strategies for handling it as a society.
I have serious concerns about how quickly this is accelerating and don't trust any of the major players (including Anthropic) to handle these concerns properly.
1 party having a black hole summoning button is better than 2.
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And I am not sure if your comment can be explained by naivety, unless you were under a rock for the last year, and missed all the events that showed they are not capable of “being the one that guides it.”
How many accidental private source code uploads did you read about? I heard exactly one. It was Anthropic. It was so bizarre I thought it was intentional. That kind of unserious behavior is somewhat unimaginable.
At some point if you are not capable of fulfilling a role that _you deem critical for the society_, yet you don’t acknowledge you fall short - for whatever reason - because it’s not in your interest, I think the benefit of the doubt disappears.