I hope your generous interpretation is right... I can't really tell what's going on with Anthropic's theater either. They definitely seem like they are vigilant

I hope your generous interpretation is right... I can't really tell what's going on with Anthropic's theater either. They definitely seem like they are vigilant of bad outcomes, going as far as to publish their own economic index trying to monitor how AI is affecting labor markets. That said, the cynic in me thinks they give lip service to these things while pushing fully ahead into the unknown on the presumption of glory and a possibility of abundance. A bunch of the leadership are EAs who subscribe to a kind of superintelligence eschatology that goes as far as to give a shot at their own immortality. Given that, I think they act on the assumption that AGI is a necessity, and they'd rather take the risks on everyone's behalf than just not create the technology in the first place. Them recently flirting with money from the gulf states is a pretty concerning signal pointing to them being more concerned with their own goals rather than ethics.