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Flippant responses aside, AI labs continuing to develop frontier AI must provide a compelling answer to the public, the government, and their employees for why they can do safely what Anthropic thinks it cannot.

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Already in mid-March, a Pew Research poll found that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited by AI, and only 10% were more excited than concerned.

How the Anthropic Paws announcement affects this is unclear, but it is clear the public started out more wary than most AI companies and the government.

Three days before Anthropic's announcement, the AI Doc, a feature-length documentary exploring the question of AI dangers, hid domestic cinemas.

The documentary film was directed by Daniel Roa whose prior documentary, Navalini, won an Academy Award and produced by the team that produced Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalini.

In contrast to those films, the AI doc was initially a commercial flop, netting a mere $700,000 across.

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Since Monday's announcement, the documentary has seen a striking midweek resurgence.

A spokesperson for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Miri, confirmed that NYT bestseller, If Anyone Builds It, Everybody Dies, written by Miris Yudkowsky and Soares has also seen a sudden surge in sales, months after the book was released.

The anthropic announcement has gotten people's attention, and they are turning to the sources at hand for answers.

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Perhaps the most gratified party of all since the announcement have been those who were calling for AI slowdowns all along.

In fact, a mere eight days before the announcement, protesters assembled outside of Anthropic's headquarters in San Francisco.

Protesters called for AI labs to commit to pausing on condition that all other labs pause.

Anthropic gave them better than that, unconditionally pausing.

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Not everyone at Anthropic supports the decision.