It appears that Anthropic has made a communications decision to distance itself from the EA community, likely because of negative associations the EA brand has in some circles.
No, but the main orgs in EA can still act in this regard. E.g. Anthropic shouldn’t be welcome at EAG events. They shouldn’t have their jobs listed on 80k. They shouldn’t be collaborated with on research projects etc that allow them to “safety wash” their brand. In fact, they should be actively opposed and protested (as PauseAI have done).
This works both ways. EA should be distancing itself from Anthropic, given recent pronouncements by Dario about racing China and initiating recursive self-improvement. Not to mention their pushing of the capabilities frontier.
As always, and as I’ve said in other cases, I.don’t think it makes sense to ask a disparate movement to make pronouncements like this.
No, but the main orgs in EA can still act in this regard. E.g. Anthropic shouldn’t be welcome at EAG events. They shouldn’t have their jobs listed on 80k. They shouldn’t be collaborated with on research projects etc that allow them to “safety wash” their brand. In fact, they should be actively opposed and protested (as PauseAI have done).