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Kelsey Piper

What Kelsey Piper thinks about Anthropic

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Journalist writing on AI, effective altruism and global development; contributing writer at The Argument, previously a senior writer at Vox's Future Perfect.

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  1. recursive self-improvement

    if Anthropic is correct, if we now have AIs that are smart enough to considerably improve the process of training future AIs, and if things can be expected to speed up rather than slow down from here, then it seems very unlikely to me that this ends well.

    ↗The Opening Argumenttheargumentmag.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  2. 8 months earlier
  3. This escalated the contract dispute into a fiasco that, multiple experts in AI and public policy told me, will probably end up being quite bad for the very national security concerns that supposedly motivated it.

    ↗Anthropic is somehow both too dangerous to allow and essential to national securitytheargumentmag.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  4. You couldn't use Claude to power a killer bot right now even if you wanted to; it would be a danger to our troops and fairly useless at our objectives.

    ↗Anthropic is somehow both too dangerous to allow and essential to national securitytheargumentmag.com 2nd of 3 in this piece