Rob Wiblin

The clear impression from all of this is that for the first time Anthropic and its staff, they don't only love Claude and enjoy its personality, they're also getting kind of scared of Claude.

So what do they plan to do about that?

Well, their answer on the computer security side is Project Glasswing, that coalition of 12 major companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, who are gonna use Mythos Preview to secure all of our phones and computers and water systems and power plants and so on.

But on the much broader problem that Mythos is shockingly capable, sometimes willing to continue sabotaging alignment research while hiding that from Anthropic, and that we simply can't tell anymore whether our tests of its personality and goals are working or not,

Well, Anthropic says it has to accelerate its progress on risk mitigations in order to keep risks low.

They think they have an achievable path to doing so, but they add that success is far from guaranteed.

Honestly, I didn't sleep super well last night.

And on this particular occasion, it wasn't just because I was being kicked by a toddler.

And on that note, I'll speak with you again soon.

Today we're releasing two essays by me back to back.

First we've got one about whether Anthropic is being hypocritical, naive or undemocratic in its dispute with the Pentagon.

And then there's a second shorter and sweeter one covering some extraordinary leaks from Meta regarding their treatment of ads for frauds and scams.

And what I think that demonstrates about regulating big tech, especially AI companies.

Enjoy!

I've spent years calling for more government oversight of frontier AI development.

So am I a hypocrite for opposing the Pentagon's attempt to commit corporate murder against Anthropic?

That's what I've heard.

As venture capitalist Marc Andreessen put it on Twitter, every single person who was in favor of government control of AI is now, suddenly, opposed to government control of AI.

It's a natural way to think, but it's also completely wrong.

And I want to explain why it's wrong, because you see the same underlying confusion all over the place.