Comment by tedsanders

Your theory is that this is self-interested PR. How does your theory explain why Anthropic is doing this, but so many other companies aren’t? If all company actions were self-interested, then wouldn’t you expect this to be a common move? Explaining why this is so uncommon requires either uncommon motive or uncommon circumstance. The theory that I find more explanatory is that the founders feel some degree of altruism and wish to exert their control over their company to effect their desired change in the world, especially before they go public and face greater scrutiny.