A few DC and EU people tell me that in private, Anthropic (and others) are more unequivocally antiregulation than their public statements would suggest.
I’ve tried to get this on the record—person X says that Anthropic said Y at meeting Z, or just Y and Z—but my sources have declined.
I believe that Anthropic’s policy advocacy is (1) bad and (2) worse in private than in public.
But Dario and Jack Clark do publicly oppose strong regulation. See https://ailabwatch.org/resources/company-advocacy/#dario-on-in-good-company-podcast and https://ailabwatch.org/resources/company-advocacy/#jack-clark. So this letter isn’t surprising or a new betrayal — the issue is the preexisting antiregulation position, insofar as it’s unreasonable.
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A few DC and EU people tell me that in private, Anthropic (and others) are more unequivocally antiregulation than their public statements would suggest.
I’ve tried to get this on the record—person X says that Anthropic said Y at meeting Z, or just Y and Z—but my sources have declined.
I’ve heard similar things, as well as Anthropic throwing their weight as a “safety” company to try to unduly influence other safety-concerned actors.