Reporter explains why doomers still build the technology they fear
1 Sep 27 2:00 AM · 18d ago · 1 article · 3 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
WSJ reporter Keach Hagey, describing the reporting process with colleague Berber Jin, framed the story as answering why people who believe AI has a meaningful chance of killing everyone are nonetheless building it.
“if people at Anthropic believe that AI has a meaningful chance of killing us all, why are they building it?”
@keachhageyAnthropic AI company at center of the reportKeach Hagey Wall Street Journal reporterBerber Jin Wall Street Journal reporterEarly Anthropic employees Subjects of the report
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first by Business Standard, 17d ago · also PBS NewsHour, The Hindu, AP News, Japan Today, Philadelphia Inquirer
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- Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled PBS NewsHour · 16d ago
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AI companies have shown themselves to be unqualified to keep track of their models - so why are we letting them be custodians of reporting incidents? My latest for @theguardian.com
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As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain? https:// broadbandbreakfast.com/anthrop ic-and-openai-sound-the-alarm-on-ai-safety-and-seek-to-shape-its-control/ # ai # artificialintelligence # politics # UnitedNations # world # news # technews #…
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Over the last few weeks, so many people have asked me: if people at Anthropic believe that AI has a meaningful chance of killing us all, why are they building it? @berber_jin1 and I did a deep dive into Anthropic's relationship with effective altruism to try to explain how doomerism came to be so ...
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Anyone slightly qualified in CS knows that the only fully reliable kill switch is physically unplugging the damn thing from ethernet/power. Any software-based “kill switch” is fundamentally flawed.
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Two thoughts: — 1. OpenAI is doing live tool calls during long-horizon RL training runs?!? That might explain some of the external cyber attacks. — 2. Why isn't Anthropic having these troubles? [embedded post]
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OpenAI and Anthropic probe tens of thousands of AI incidents, Axios reports https:// thenextweb.com/news/openai-ant hropic-tens-of-thousands-ai-incidents-axios?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into TNW - All Stories @ tnw-all-stories-thenextweb
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So OpenAI pump faked Anthropic into IPOing which has now exposed just how awful their metrics are. While OpenAI stays private for longer to farm aura off of its insane growth and reach profitability. It now looks likely Anthropic goes below 1T shortly after IPO while OpenAI jester maxes its way t...
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Ai is dying. Thats whu there shutting everything down. They dont have money anymore for it and are seeing no roi. Its dying out.
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What Anthropic and OpenAI stand to gain from calls for an AI slowdown | AP News https:// apnews.com/article/ai-slowdown -midterms-anthropic-openai-ipo-9a057de94eb8f30a2fdb5b938918627e
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Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. Could change in 2026! https://www.wheresyoured.at/ ...
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Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity have wielded big influence at Anthropic.
All 1 developments of WSJ report: Effective altruism deeply shaped Anthropic's… →
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