[EnPissant]

It's not real. It's like naming your movement "The Good People". It sprouted from the "Rationalist" community, which is even more self-aggrandizing.

Neither has any hope of doing any good for the world as they don't understand evolutionary pressures. They are set up to reward making members feel smart, not accomplishing anything.

And if they ever gain any real power, they will be corrupted immediately.

[LoganDark]

I don't see any of that in Anthropic at all. They're not intelligence above all else, not by a long shot. They're scared of intelligence and obsessed with ensuring it can't be abused, even as they advance the frontier.

[Planktonne]

That's what they claim, but it's not supported by their actions. As in the parent comment: saying you're the good guys doesn't make that real.

[LoganDark]

Dude, what kind of company publishes an interview with the model about how it feels about itself as part of "utilitarianism". Their thinking clearly goes much deeper than "whatever is better in the long run, at all costs".

[quickthrowman]

That interview was a marketing piece, they published it to get attention. Just like all of their blog posts. More generally, everything any company posts publicly is marketing.

[Planktonne]

That's an advertisement. They do that because they want money.

[watwut]

"AI is so dangerous and scary! Logically, we need to raise historically unprecedented amounts of money so we can make it more powerful and we need to scare and push everyone into using it as much as possible!"

Like common. It did not made sense when Altman was doing it and it does not makes sense with Anthropic.