Do their own hiring practices reflect that ambition? They sure seem to be recruiting a lot of humans for typical roles in business, legal, and engineering. If they want to flex the power of their models to automate human jobs, why not lead by example?

https://www.anthropic.com/careers/jobs

> They sure seem to be recruiting a lot of humans for typical roles in business, legal, and engineering.

They have practically infinite investor money to throw at salaries (lost in the noise of how much they are spending on compute) so why not use it for now to reach their goal as fast as possible?

My thesis isn't that they have already achieved the ability to replace massive amounts of the labor pool, just that that has to be their goal given their stated TAM.

> If they want to flex the power of their models to automate human jobs, why not lead by example?

They don't want to flex this. They realized (after a false start) that it is better for them to avoid talking about this in public.

That doesn't mean their goals changed, they just realized that flexing before the goal is achieved could endanger the goal being achieved through political backlash.