The situation doesn’t seem very similar to Anthropic. Regardless of whether you think Anthropic is good or bad (I think Anthropic is very good, but I work at Anthropic, so take that as you will), Anthropic was founded with the explicitly altruistic intention of making AI go well. Mechanize, by contrast, seems to mostly not be making any claims about altruistic motivations at all.
The situation doesn’t seem very similar to Anthropic. Regardless of whether you think Anthropic is good or bad (I think Anthropic is very good, but I work at Anthropic, so take that as you will), Anthropic was founded with the explicitly altruistic intention of making AI go well. Mechanize, by contrast, seems to mostly not be making any claims about altruistic motivations at all.
You’re right that this is an important distinction to make.