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Anthropic's interests are not aligned with the interests of the human species. Quoting the Anthropic safety guy who just exited, making a bizarre and financial

Anthropic's interests are not aligned with the interests of the human species. Quoting the Anthropic safety guy who just exited, making a bizarre and financially detrimental move: "the world is in peril" (https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/02/09/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-warns-of-world-in-peril-in-resignation/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/02/09/anthropi...) There are people in the AI industry who are urgently warning you. Myself and my colleagues, for example: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see... Regulation will not stop this. It's time to build and deploy weapons if you want your species to survive. See earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964545

rishabhaiover 8mo ago
Calm down, hysteria doesn't serve any side well.
- atomic128 8mo ago
  Geoffrey Hinton's assessment of the situation may sound hysterical to you but we have come to believe that he is largely correct (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton). Hinton understands the dire nature of the threat but overestimates the value of regulation in a world where the threatening technology is under development world-wide. We think regulation is basically impotent and large-scale information weapons are more viable as a solution. This is not the time to be a docile onlooker and we urge you to take action.
  - UltraSane 8mo ago
    LLMs will have to improve drastically before I take these hysterical warning seriously.
- rramadass 8mo ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014519
- hackable_sand 8mo ago
  Stop gaslighting people
alan-stark 8mo ago
Can you elaborate on the "mode of peril"? Is it: (a) Top labs quietly signing deals for military deployment of frontier models in unmanned strike weapons? (b) Top labs agreeing to license LLMs for social engineering/propaganda ops? (c) Models that vastly exceed human intelligence and have capacity to pursue own agenda (i.e. runaway intelligence)? (d) Something else? It looks like dangers of AGI are overblown (perhaps partially due to grant funding and ability to get political traction/investment/competitive advantage), while (a) and (b) are severely underdiscussed. Would love to get other perspectives.
- rramadass 8mo ago
  All of the above (without even believing in AGI). See CNN article linked here and follow links to articles mentioned in it for more details - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997198

rishabhaiover 8mo ago

Calm down, hysteria doesn't serve any side well.

atomic128 8mo ago
Geoffrey Hinton's assessment of the situation may sound hysterical to you but we have come to believe that he is largely correct (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton). Hinton understands the dire nature of the threat but overestimates the value of regulation in a world where the threatening technology is under development world-wide. We think regulation is basically impotent and large-scale information weapons are more viable as a solution. This is not the time to be a docile onlooker and we urge you to take action.
- UltraSane 8mo ago
  LLMs will have to improve drastically before I take these hysterical warning seriously.
rramadass 8mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014519
hackable_sand 8mo ago
Stop gaslighting people

alan-stark 8mo ago

Can you elaborate on the "mode of peril"? Is it: (a) Top labs quietly signing deals for military deployment of frontier models in unmanned strike weapons? (b) Top labs agreeing to license LLMs for social engineering/propaganda ops? (c) Models that vastly exceed human intelligence and have capacity to pursue own agenda (i.e. runaway intelligence)? (d) Something else? It looks like dangers of AGI are overblown (perhaps partially due to grant funding and ability to get political traction/investment/competitive advantage), while (a) and (b) are severely underdiscussed. Would love to get other perspectives.

rramadass 8mo ago
All of the above (without even believing in AGI). See CNN article linked here and follow links to articles mentioned in it for more details - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997198