Anthropic has a general policy of employees not being allowed to respond to inquiries about their policies or commitments with anything that could be perceived as an official response from Anthropic (I have reached out to people at Anthropic many times to get clarification on various commitments and was universally told they are unable to clarify, and don’t generally respond to that kind of inquiry, and if I want to know what they committed to I should purely look at their official publications which will generally not be written with anyone’s specific concerns in mind).
Did you reach out to Anthropic for comments/answers?
Anthropic has a general policy of employees not being allowed to respond to inquiries about their policies or commitments with anything that could be perceived as an official response from Anthropic (I have reached out to people at Anthropic many times to get clarification on various commitments and was universally told they are unable to clarify, and don’t generally respond to that kind of inquiry, and if I want to know what they committed to I should purely look at their official publications which will generally not be written with anyone’s specific concerns in mind).
Ah I see, thanks.
That seems like.. a bad policy?
Yes.
Yes, I’ve previously made some folks at Anthropic aware of these concerns, e.g. associated with this post.
In response to this post, Zac Hatfield-Dodds told me he expects Anthropic will publish more information about its governance in the future.