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We have not stopped work, but we are being intentional about which work we do, and realistic about the bottlenecks and challenges required to achieve loving grace.

There's an image here.

In short, Dario Amodei says he doesn't want to race off a cliff and into a volcano.

And he intends for Anthropic to lead by example.

Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder and head of policy elaborates on the plan.

At a practical level, in many ways it doesn't matter what others do, we don't want to take actions with regret, we don't want to pull a trigger at ourselves.

But at the same time, we are sending a clear signal to other labs, to the US government, world governments, foreign powers, and the public that the promise of AI is very great and so are the risks.

I don't want the wake-up call to be an extreme disaster.

I hope that a saying, hey, we're going to risk our leading position over this and all that entails is a wake-up call the world doesn't ignore.

I hope we see treaties drawn up in response to this.

I don't think we're handing the lead to China, I think we're creating the political conditions for an international agreement.

The sooner everyone gets on board with truly responsible development, the sooner humanity can have the benefits.

Not everyone believes it though.

According to Scott Galloway, business professor at NYU and host of Professor G, the perplexing corporate move is an attempted corporate strategy regardless of whether it is good strategy.

Let's be clear about what's happening.

Anthropic has one of the most capable models in the world.

They pause, they lobby for regulations that take years to navigate, and when the dust settles, they've locked in their advantage while everyone else is buried in compliance.

It might be the most sophisticated regulatory capture play in history.

Whether the attempt is earnest or a play, the bold move is upending the AI policy landscape.

The last two years have seen significant AI legislative activity.