I’m not interested in litigating an is-ought gap about whether “we” (human civilization?) “should” be facing such high risks from AI; obviously we’re not in such an ideal world, and so discussions from that implicit starting point are imo useless
My post is about Anthropic being untrustworthy. If that was not the case, if Anthropic clearly and publicly was making the case for doing their work with full understanding of the consequences, if the leadership did not communicate contradictory positions to different people and was instead being honest and high-integrity, I could imagine a case being made for working at Anthropic on capabilities, to have a company that stays at the frontier and is able to get and publish evidence, and use its resources to slow down everyone on the planet.
But we, instead, live in a world where multiple people showed me misleading personal messages from Jack Clark.
One should be careful not to galaxy-brain themselves into thinking that it’s fine for people to be low-integrity.
I don’t think the assumptions that you think I’m making are feeding into most of the post.
Several are from people who I know to have lied about Anthropic in the past
If you think I got any of the facts wrong, please do correct me on them. (You can reach out in private, and share information with me in private, and I will not share it further without permission.)
I continue to have written redlines which would cause me to quit in protest.
My post is about Anthropic being untrustworthy. If that was not the case, if Anthropic clearly and publicly was making the case for doing their work with full understanding of the consequences, if the leadership did not communicate contradictory positions to different people and was instead being honest and high-integrity, I could imagine a case being made for working at Anthropic on capabilities, to have a company that stays at the frontier and is able to get and publish evidence, and use its resources to slow down everyone on the planet.
But we, instead, live in a world where multiple people showed me misleading personal messages from Jack Clark.
One should be careful not to galaxy-brain themselves into thinking that it’s fine for people to be low-integrity.
I don’t think the assumptions that you think I’m making are feeding into most of the post.
If you think I got any of the facts wrong, please do correct me on them. (You can reach out in private, and share information with me in private, and I will not share it further without permission.)
I appreciate you having done this.