So I decided to revisit “Machines of Loving Grace” (I enjoy reading it quite a lot I think it lays out a great optimistic future with cautious optimism) and under the Peace and Governance section (see attached screenshots), it hits me Anthropic operates like a think tank. Think about it; they have the best AI safety researchers, and they are doing fantastic work around mech interp research (which I think is really promising), but they tend to be very invested in the “politics” of AI. Another case in point is their submission to OSTP for the US AI Action Plan, particularly p.5, where they discuss the intergovernmental agreements:
Requiring countries to sign government-to-government agreements outlining measures to prevent smuggling. As a prerequisite for hosting data centers with more than 50,000 chips from U.S. companies, the U.S. should mandate that countries at high-risk for chip smuggling comply with a government-to-government agreement that 1) requires them to align their export control systems with the U.S., 2) takes security measures to address chip smuggling to China, and 3) stops their companies from working with the Chinese military. The Department of Commerce’s January 2025 Interim Final Rule on the Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion (the “Diffusion Rule”) already contains the possibility for such agreements, laying a foundation for further policy development.
In as much, it is a great action plan with too many benefits for the US (and by extension the labs) in terms of smuggling; they went overboard because, in my opinion, talking about security measures, for instance, these are more diplomatic issues.
So I decided to revisit “Machines of Loving Grace” (I enjoy reading it quite a lot I think it lays out a great optimistic future with cautious optimism) and under the Peace and Governance section (see attached screenshots), it hits me Anthropic operates like a think tank. Think about it; they have the best AI safety researchers, and they are doing fantastic work around mech interp research (which I think is really promising), but they tend to be very invested in the “politics” of AI. Another case in point is their submission to OSTP for the US AI Action Plan, particularly p.5, where they discuss the intergovernmental agreements:
In as much, it is a great action plan with too many benefits for the US (and by extension the labs) in terms of smuggling; they went overboard because, in my opinion, talking about security measures, for instance, these are more diplomatic issues.