[patcon]

What differentiates this faking/scaring from real risk that's being avoided or mitigated responsibly? And how would you (an outside observer) ever know the difference as something beyond an uninformed hot-take?

Serious question -- I'm not trying to disrespect. Neither you nor I can be properly informed, nor can be anyone else outside the company, as outside observers who lag behind the state of the art as new behaviors emerge, right?

[mvkel]

I was simply responding to the point that Anthropic has some altruistic bent and are trying to downplay the fear, when in fact their entire commercial strategy is to convince society that they alone are qualified to hold the keys.

Being in the Bay Area, you can throw a stone and hit a senior employee of these companies, and they will happily gush about the quirks, policies, and intents inside. All the more reason that they are -not- qualified to weigh in on who gets the nuclear codes.