Comment by 0xDEAFBEAD
1 day ago
If people are willing to give a lot of money to a cause, sometimes that means their concern about that cause is real.
None of the info you provided really falsifies the Occam's Razor hypothesis: Anthropic is a public benefit corporation with a public benefit mission to "responsibly develop and maintain advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity". You don't have to like or trust them, but they very well might be sincere. For example here's a talk that was given 10 years before Anthropic's founding: https://vimeo.com/158576192
Is Tallinn sincere about holding $10bn of Anthropic, who refuse to slow down until everyone else slows down.
Then funding PauseAI, who protest outside the AI companies?
He is funding protests against the thing he owns.
Why do you think Tallin holding ~1% of Anthropic would be a controlling interest that would allow him to force it to pause?
There cannot be regulation if people are not scared
Politicians are now discussing the need for much harsher liability regimes for AI companies. How many times can you name when a company argued that its industry should suffer a much harsher liability regime? This doesn't match the standard regulatory capture template.
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I'm against AI but I'll invest in it too. Either I win or I get a return on my investment.
There is also money going towards trying to prevent AI regulations btw. See Leading the Future, etc.