If people are willing to give a lot of money to a cause, sometimes that means their concern about that cause is real.

None of the info you provided really falsifies the Occam's Razor hypothesis: Anthropic is a public benefit corporation with a public benefit mission to "responsibly develop and maintain advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity". You don't have to like or trust them, but they very well might be sincere. For example here's a talk that was given 10 years before Anthropic's founding: https://vimeo.com/158576192

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lukewarm707 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is Tallinn sincere about holding $10bn of Anthropic, who refuse to slow down until everyone else slows down.

Then funding PauseAI, who protest outside the AI companies?

He is funding protests against the thing he owns.

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0xDEAFBEAD 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why do you think Tallin holding ~1% of Anthropic would be a controlling interest that would allow him to force it to pause?

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miohtama 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There cannot be regulation if people are not scared

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0xDEAFBEAD 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Politicians are now discussing the need for much harsher liability regimes for AI companies. How many times can you name when a company argued that its industry should suffer a much harsher liability regime? This doesn't match the standard regulatory capture template.

	▲	jswelker 20 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Indeed I find LeCun and Huang (and Trump?) recently arguing against AI regulation to be much more eyebrow raising than the folks asking for regulation. Asking for regulation is suspicious. Asking for no regulation is suspicious. At some point you have to stop worrying about these guys motives and just do what is best for society
	▲	afthonos 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Don’t ruin their vibe.

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0xDEAFBEAD 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is also money going towards trying to prevent AI regulations btw. See Leading the Future, etc.