I dunno man, it all just sounds like trying to put controls on AI while being the favourite child of govt so competition can't fight as easily.

Especially with IPO around the corner

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kalkin 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Do you think Anthropic's behavior in the last year is well explained by aiming to be "the favorite child of govt"?

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0xDEAFBEAD 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If Dario was primarily motivated by being the "favorite child of govt", he would've yielded during the DoD showdown.

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nullbio 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And getting to choose his own "embedded evaluator" org that has deep ties to everyone in the doomer media campaign.

It's all so obvious.

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0xDEAFBEAD 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Who would you pick for "embedded evaluator"?

"deep ties to everyone in the doomer media campaign"

Are you suggesting these external NGOs were spun up as part of a gigantic pre-IPO hype stunt? METR was founded multiple years ago. This "stunt" is getting quite elaborate.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O0R5!,f_auto,q_auto:...

At a certain point, Occam's Razor says: These engineers are legitimately worried. They haven't invested years in a bizarre reverse psychology campaign to convince the public that their product is dangerous in order to make more money.

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nullbio 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Founded several years after Anthropic. Like I said, look into where their funding is coming from. I can promise you it all leads back to Anthropic through their chain of NGOs.

Are you aware that Dario's sister, president of Anthropic, is married to the co-founder of Open Philanthropy? The two largest AI doomer NGOs, Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and the Future of Life Institute (FLI), have both received many millions of dollars from them.

Ajeya Cotra worked at Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving for roughly nine years, including leading its technical AI-safety program in 2024 and contributing to AI-giving strategy in 2025. She subsequently left Coefficient and joined METR, where she is now technical staff.

Ajeya is married to Paul Christiano, who founded Alignment Research Center (ARC). Alignment Research Center donated ~$4.5mil to METR.

Good Ventures is a funding partner of Open Philanthropy, who funded Jacob Coxon (the person going viral in the media) via a scholarship.

They're all connected, funnelling money to each-other through convoluted networks to serve Anthropic's agenda. Whether their motives are genuine or not (and they are clearly not) is actually irrelevant because they are clearly trying to rig the game in their favour.

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0xDEAFBEAD 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Suppose I showed you a number of climate change NGOs which shared staff and funding sources. Could we therefore conclude that their motives aren't genuine?

Suppose a big foundation both funded clean energy technology, and also NGOs encouraging people to decarbonize. Is this just a cynical attempt to rig the game in their favor?

	▲	nullbio 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Pure cope. > Suppose a big foundation both funded clean energy technology, and also NGOs encouraging people to decarbonize. Is this just a cynical attempt to rig the game in their favor? Not comparable. The clean energy technology company wouldn't be trying to create an environment where no one else can create clean energy technology, or where only they are the ones who can decide how clean energy technology is created or used.