It seems pretty clear that Amazon’s intent is to have state of the art AI backing Alexa. That alone would not be particularly concerning. The problem would be if Amazon has some leverage to force Anthropic to accelerate capabilities research and neglect safety—which is certainly possible, but it seems like Anthropic wants to avoid it by keeping Amazon as a minority investor and maintaining the existing governance structure.
Judging by the example of Microsoft owning a minority stake in OpenAI (and the subsequent rush to release Bing’s Sydney/GPT-4), that’s not exactly comforting.
It seems pretty clear that Amazon’s intent is to have state of the art AI backing Alexa. That alone would not be particularly concerning. The problem would be if Amazon has some leverage to force Anthropic to accelerate capabilities research and neglect safety—which is certainly possible, but it seems like Anthropic wants to avoid it by keeping Amazon as a minority investor and maintaining the existing governance structure.
Judging by the example of Microsoft owning a minority stake in OpenAI (and the subsequent rush to release Bing’s Sydney/GPT-4), that’s not exactly comforting.