The idea features heavily in the widely read AI 2027 doomsday scenario of last year, which imagines AI agents designing more and more intelligent versions of themselves, one of which eventually kills all of humanity with a bioweapon in order to make room for more datacentres and solar panels.
Fucking lunatics
Marketing.
Exactly.
“We’re working on something so amazing you better hold us back! Honestly we’re going to release our AGI any day now, just a few more rounds of VC and boom.”
Moat. A pause stops competitors catching up while theyre ahead
Anthropic was started from all the safety engineers that left OpenAI over safety concerns
And then they immediately became as evil as OpenAI. More in fact, if such a thing is possible.
Anthropic once again trying to brand themselves as the good guys, while actively cooperating with the NSA.
Isn’t this basically Anthropic trying to shield itself from new market entrants?
So that means anthropic made a predictive model that actually works and it predicted heads in a basket. “We aren’t the bad guys, pinky promise!”
No it means Anthropic think they have a head start and want to capitalise on it.
This. Big companies only want regulations so that they can be made onorous enough to force smaller companies out of business.
How about:
- Quit
- Move to trash
- Empty trash
Unless they developed something radically different than, transformer architecture from Google and mixture of experts from Deepseek, this is just absolute bullshit. Just like they claimed Mythos is something out of this world, but it was just another step in the progress.
1944: Japan says world should have pause on nuclear weapons.
Like, yes, but at this point, your country opting in or out doesn’t change the destination, only who gets there.
The battle cry of every numb-nutted CEO trying to smash AI into every nook and cranny… “We’re gonna get left behiiiiiiinnnnd duuuurrrr”
Sorry, do you think nuclear weapons are smashed into every nook and cranny?
There’s another function hiding under the ‘pause’ key:
Supremely annoying facial expression on Dario there, well done photo editor
