It seems like this was entirely caused by Dario (and Anthropic as a whole)? When you run around marketing something as a "super weapon", the government may actually take you seriously?

We obviously can't A/B test this... but if Dario hadn't been doing that, would any of this been happening right now?

Hard to say "entirely" when you also have a movement of people and non-profits who are also pushing for more regulation.

Altman has done his fair share of "doom-trolling", claiming that his products are going to inevitably disrupt the global order in ways that demand government support and intervention. The entire industry has been marketing this way for years now.

> It seems like this was entirely caused by Dario

No it doesn't.

> When you run around marketing something as a "super weapon"

That's one interpretation of what was said that ignores a lot of what was said.

So yes, if you ONLY read the headlines, sure. So, an ignorant and stupid government would read it that way. But the reality was, like many things, more nuanced.

However, I need not blame the messenger because the current government is led by idiotic morons.

Let's put this another way: either this is valid on behalf of the government, in which case he was right ot say something. Or you disagree with this, in which case, you can only blame the government for ignornig what was actually said.