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You can't have it both ways. Either it's fine to outsource to China, fine to use H1Bs to undercut US talent, or, foreign governments are strategically positioning and their espionage is a threat to America.
And that is all that businesses will see. All the hand wringing over human rights etc will somehow be discovered to just not be important once they read that.
Someone who until yesterday did not seem bothered by his technology being possibly used to bomb elementary girls school in another country seems to suddenly care about the repression of citizens in yet another country. No, we don't buy your virtue signaling. And we certainly don't need your better-than-thou opinions on this year's "nightmare scenarios".
The bombing of the school was horrible, but it was a mistake. I could see essentially the opposite argument: Anthropic should be more involved as to prevent mistakes in the future with better technology. Imagine Claude asking the decision makers at CENTCOM "this looks like a school, are you sure you want this added as a target?"
This argument might make a modicum of sense if the US hasn’t spent the last 2 years establishing itself as a bigger enemy of the west that China.
Anthropic/Dario getting a lot of hate in this thread, but the argument he makes is rational if you believe for one second that AI is important to national security and that it can, or will soon be incredibly dangerous is misused. People pointing out that this position benefits his company might be overly reductionist in how they think the world works. I believe Dario and Anthropic about their belief that AI safety is…
Schrödinger's China at once is an evil entity looking to use AI for their own nefarious purposes yet also willing to cooperate with their main competitor to prevent other actors (who??) from achieving similar goals (all while under a chip embargo too!!) The reality is much less confusing: Anthropic CEO does not wish for models with similar (or greater) capabilities compared to his own closed and overpriced ones to be…
Nvidia signed the open-weight model letter and Europe doesn't have better models either, so chips don't seem like the issue either. I guess good old performance optimisation is just not _cool_ anymore. So they use the same argument as politicians arguing "cheap products" are why tariffs are needed; when instead it's mismanagement.
Another HN user wrote the other day "live by the sword, die by the sword".