š° Anthropic founder Dario posted on September 12, calling for cutting-edge AI to slow down its pace of capability improvements. His reason is that safety research, interpretability, and regulatory mechanisms canāt keep up. Meanwhile, on the other side of the story, the company is preparing for somethingāthis contrast directly ignites the controversy.
š„ The prototype character of *The Big Short*, Michael Burry, publicly questioned this claim that āAI is becoming so powerful it could be dangerous,ā which may also be a way to add polish to the IPO. If the industry were to collectively slow down, the companies that would be most comfortable are the already-leading ones like OpenAI and Anthropic.
š Investigation blogger Kevin Bass then followed the public trail of investments and charitable grants, uncovering financial crossovers among Anthropicās early investors, AI safety organizations, third-party evaluation firms, and media projects. He also questioned whether the evaluation organization METR recommended by Dario is truly independent. METR responded that it does not accept direct funding from AI companies, but it does use the large number of free tokens provided by those companies.
š” Honestly, discussing AI safety is absolutely fine. Whatās really uncomfortable is this: while one side calls on the whole industry to hit the brakes, financing, expansion, and pushing for an IPO havenāt stopped. NVIDIA was also reported to be discussing making investments, and Anthropicās valuation at its May funding round was $96.5 billion.
š¤ If a leading AI company both helps define the risks and recommends the evaluators, while simultaneously sprinting toward an ultra-large-scale IPO, would you believe itās warning about dangerāor raising its own stakes?
#Anthropic #äŗŗå·„ęŗč½ #AIå®å Ø #Technology financing
š„ The prototype character of *The Big Short*, Michael Burry, publicly questioned this claim that āAI is becoming so powerful it could be dangerous,ā which may also be a way to add polish to the IPO. If the industry were to collectively slow down, the companies that would be most comfortable are the already-leading ones like OpenAI and Anthropic.
š Investigation blogger Kevin Bass then followed the public trail of investments and charitable grants, uncovering financial crossovers among Anthropicās early investors, AI safety organizations, third-party evaluation firms, and media projects. He also questioned whether the evaluation organization METR recommended by Dario is truly independent. METR responded that it does not accept direct funding from AI companies, but it does use the large number of free tokens provided by those companies.
š” Honestly, discussing AI safety is absolutely fine. Whatās really uncomfortable is this: while one side calls on the whole industry to hit the brakes, financing, expansion, and pushing for an IPO havenāt stopped. NVIDIA was also reported to be discussing making investments, and Anthropicās valuation at its May funding round was $96.5 billion.
š¤ If a leading AI company both helps define the risks and recommends the evaluators, while simultaneously sprinting toward an ultra-large-scale IPO, would you believe itās warning about dangerāor raising its own stakes?
#Anthropic #äŗŗå·„ęŗč½ #AIå®å Ø #Technology financing
