All your evidences can be exactly true, and he genuinely believes that Anthropic "winning" the AI race is the best outcome for humanity even with a little subte

All your evidences can be exactly true, and he genuinely believes that Anthropic "winning" the AI race is the best outcome for humanity even with a little subterfuge including marketing to the current administration. If I genuinely thought I needed to do something to secure humanity, there's little I wouldn't do to achieve it.