Nathaniel Whittemore

I can't predict the evolution of this technology well enough to know what I'm rooting for here, but just adding two and two makes it hard to see how and why we'd continue to treat these companies like they're ordinary private sector firms.

And for many, this gets even more dramatic when they game out the scenario of what would have happened if China got there first.

George Journeys writes, So basically, if Anthropic was not a U.S.

company, we'd be facing zero days with multiple unknown points of attack on virtually all of our systems to an adversary who developed this capacity before us.

Sporadica on Twitter writes, Another reason why the accelerate chance of days past were legitimate and serious and just let China develop this stuff first was always a suicidal, dangerous mentality.

Dean Ball thinks it's maybe a moment to regroup when it comes to policy and rededicate ourselves.

In a long post, he concludes, Finally, there is this.

Mythos was made by an American company.

And like most successful American companies, it has a vested interest in maintaining order and peace.

It is investing substantial resources in mitigating the risks of its technological progress, as I expect most of the American labs would.

This is cause for optimism.

The incentives of capitalism are working.

The training wheels are coming off, but at least we are the ones removing them, as opposed to our enemies.

Perhaps we can be the first to learn to bike for real.

The first step would be to get beyond all the low-fidelity, underspecified, pimply little fights of AI policy's prepubescent era.

That goes for me, too.

What hath God wrought, wrote the first telegram.

What, indeed.

In this case, the answer is still up to us.

I think one of the things that's important to remember is that we are living in the world of double-edged swords.