Anthropic occupies a peculiar position in the AI landscape: a company that genuinely believes it might be building one of the most dangerous technologies in human history, yet presses forward anyway, on the theory that it's better to have safety-focused labs at the frontier than to cede that ground to developers less focused on safety.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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You can actually download the real algorithm code that runs in production. You can download the real data, the Community Notes and ratings, run the code on the data to verify that there is no funny business that we're doing on our end. There's no override button.

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Another way to look at this is that Anthropic has just been very, very successful in making people very, very concerned about advanced AI. Two or three weeks ago, Anthropic actually called for a pause in development of advanced AI models because they were becoming so powerful. So, you know, there's also sort of this this criticism of Anthropic that, "Look, you've been asking for this regulation."

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