There's also a big irony here, and you'll hear Hayden and me get into that, too: Anthropic has spent years arguing that AI might soon be powerful enough to be dangerous — and that the government needed to get serious about regulating AI sooner rather than later. Well… now we're here, and Anthropic doesn't love the way it's playing out.
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