Critics have long accused Anthropic of “doom marketing” — hyping its own products as so good that they are bad. But the post’s co-author, who is also the company’s co-founder, says the motive is very different. “We say this stuff because we think the world needs to know the truth about what’s happening,” Jack Clark, who now heads Anthropic’s public benefit work, said in an interview.
Days after filing confidentially to go public, Anthropic, the US$965 billion ($1.24 trillion) AI juggernaut that’s one of the fastest-growing startups of all time, dropped another bombshell.
In a blog post, Anthropic suggested the world might benefit from a slowdown in the development of the very technologies that have been minting cash for the company. Provided global peers agreed and enforcement mechanisms could be established, this would help societies deal with the “immense implications” of AI, it said.
