Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?
by hollerith on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:08PM
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>the company actually is ethical and safety conscious everywhere
Anthropic is emphatically not safe. None of the AI labs with customers (i.e., excluding a few small nonprofits whose revenue comes from donations) are anything like safe -- because of extinction risk. The famous positive regard that Anthropic employees have for their organization's mission means almost nothing because there have been hundreds of quite destructive cults whose members believed that the cult is the most ethical and benign organization ever.
The best thing you can say about Anthropic is that if you have to support some AI lab by becoming a customer, it is slightly less globally harmful to become a customer of Anthropic than of OpenAI although IMHO (and I admit I am in a minority on this among extinction-risk activists) it is slightly less harmful to become of customer of Google Deep Mind or Mistral than of Anthropic.
If I had my way, all four organizations I mentioned would be shut down tomorrow with their assets returned to shareholders.
Anthropic is emphatically not safe. None of the AI labs with customers (i.e., excluding a few small nonprofits whose revenue comes from donations) are anything like safe -- because of extinction risk. The famous positive regard that Anthropic employees have for their organization's mission means almost nothing because there have been hundreds of quite destructive cults whose members believed that the cult is the most ethical and benign organization ever.
The best thing you can say about Anthropic is that if you have to support some AI lab by becoming a customer, it is slightly less globally harmful to become a customer of Anthropic than of OpenAI although IMHO (and I admit I am in a minority on this among extinction-risk activists) it is slightly less harmful to become of customer of Google Deep Mind or Mistral than of Anthropic.
If I had my way, all four organizations I mentioned would be shut down tomorrow with their assets returned to shareholders.