> Pillar 2: AI safety is a universal practice backstopped by law. AI developers everywhere follow safe development and deployment practices, sustained by industry norms and enforced by regulation.<p>They so, so badly want to criminalize local models.<p>edited:<p>> Interpretability isn’t reliable enough to fully understand model intentions: Being able to read and understand a model’s internal reasoning reduces our reliance on what the models explicitly tell us about why they behaved in a certain way. This could be a useful tool for understanding models’ “thought processes” when they take unintended actions. But interpretability methods are not yet
dependable or broad enough to be relied on in this way. As a result, we may miss our assessment of high-risk behaviors, or be able to investigate flawed reasoning only after an
incident has occurred.<p>Just say you have no idea how or why they do what they do. Just the other day I saw it make an obnoxious, huge, irrelevant comment in a block of code - many lines more than the code change (which by the way, I have tons of instructions and hooks intended to stop this, it's maybe 95% reliable at best) - and told it quite plainly, "remove that comment."<p>What it did instead was remove <i>most</i> of the comment except one line, which was also irrelevant. When I noticed, I asked it why it did that when I explicitly stated otherwise and if it misunderstood what I meant. It happily chimed "No, I did not misunderstand your intent, I just thought this was better."<p>I can't trust that was the real reason so clearly I can't trust that whatever training causes this behavior results in a reliable tool.
I didn't want to keep editing my comment so I am replying to it, so much of this document makes me angry:<p>> Before we can align a model with human values, we must consider what those
values should be.<p>Ok, so you believe that 1) this technology will become so powerful as to surpass humans in pretty much every imaginable way, so much so that you see it as an existential threat to humanity itself, and 2) that you see yourself as a responsible steward to avoiding bad outcomes, <i>but</i> 3), that you <i>need to be the arbiter of what human values should be?</i><p>How fucking <i>arrogant,</i> pardon my language. My god.
They only care about regulation when it can be used to snuff out competition.
Giving the public an interest in the private company gives the public the impression that it's in their benefit if the government doesn't regulate the company.<p>Like giving turkeys a share in a cranberry sauce company.
> AI’s benefits are shared by everyone<p>Okay so where's my free access to Claude Code
Some of the aspects of these pillars need to be fleshed out, this reads like it was slapped together as a last second presentation.<p>For example, “Help all people, especially those most affected by AI, earn more and feel financially secure.”<p>How would this work? How does AI do anything but detract from the value of labor? Anything made by AI or through heavy AI involvement can be remade just as easily. It circumvents the moat of expertise and effort.<p>I wish AI companies would just be honest with the most likely consequences of their products proliferation, instead of these Disney-a** sunshine and rainbow pieces. Then maybe we could have a real conversation.
The public would benefit the most from an American distillation regime. The faster models become a commodity the better. Then it's truly a public good.
Pillar 6: war is peace<p>Pillar 7: freedom is slavery
The pillars read as claimed achievements in this link. But from the charter: "Each pillar describes a condition we want to be true in a world where AI has gone well, and realizing them is a project that encompasses not only Anthropic but also governments, academia, civil society, and the broader AI industry."<p>So these are aspirational.
They must be consulting Kim Yong Un or similar for the daily propaganda. This is unbelievable.<p>Maybe organize a "spontaneous" demonstration in favor of AI with 10 year olds wearing scarves and waving Anthropic flags.
I expect Anthropic's status as a public benefit corporation to matter exactly as much as OpenAI's status as a nonprofit did
I think it would be a public benefit if they stopped aggregating all their accumulated debt on the public.
Honestly fuck Anthropic, fuck OpenAI and fuck all the LLM providers.<p>As soon as I can I'm off to self hosting and providing the service to friends and family via a VPN.<p>These companies are just ingesting public and frequently private information and regurgitating it back as a service.<p>As soon as I can run inference locally will do so.<p>Just look at the maths people whose work was stolen.<p>You want to benefit the public? Open your weights and training data.<p>Otherwise FO pretending to have a social conscience, you don't.
PBC is a scam word. It changes nothing about the corporations responsibility.
Maybe you're thinking of B Corp? That's just a certification from some group. Public Benefit Corporation, on the other hand, changes directors' fiduciary responsibilities. For example, earlier this year, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that PBC directors are not obligated to maximize shareholder value when selling control of their company.<p>I highly recommend Eric Ries' new book <i>Incorruptible</i> if you want to learn more about this stuff. In there he tells the story of the Vectura Group, a pharma company that was developing treatments for asthma and other respiratory diseases. It was looking at a sale, and it had a couple offers, the one from Phillip Morris slightly edged out the other, and because of fiduciary duty, even though many involved viscerally hated the idea of going to Phillip Morris, as the cause of many of the ailments they sought to cure, they sold to them.
Could you elaborate on your feelings on that? I was reading about BlueSky's PBC status literally yesterday, and am rather interested in what people's perception of such an entity is, vs a hybrid such as Wikipedia/Enterprise Wikimedia.
What a crock of shit. Who actually buys the idea that they are in for anything but money? Pretending to care is almost worse than just owning the fact they are out for profit.<p>Every single "pillar" they mention is demonstrably false.
> <i>Our charter is to responsibly develop and maintain advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity.</i><p>Seems like a good time to remember that Dario Amodei’s wife pitched Jeffery Epstein on funding her porn site.<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/08/14/who-is-cami-clark-anthropic-ceos-wife-asked-epstein-to-invest-in-porn-business/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/08/14/who-is-...</a>
She probably thought that having Jeffrey Epstein involved in her porn site would be a benefit to humanity. The people involved in Epstein's plots probably <i>also</i> thought they were benefiting humanity (just maybe not the humans alive <i>right now</i>)<p>And for clarity, this isn't just Dario's wife, she's part of the executive staff.
I was never a fan of Anthropic but I like them less and less as the year wears on. Claude increasingly has begun to moralize and it sometimes sounds like a holier-than-thou NorCal purity person.<p>I increasingly consider Anthropic's so-called humanistic stance completely hubristic and hypocritical. They are our self-appointed future dictators.