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Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

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Re: Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

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Someone here recently said, “Dishonesty is a core value of Anthropic,” and that aligns with my experience of the company as a user. All their talk about AI safety since the company’s inception now feels like pure theater, given their conduct in everyday operations. It’s a shame how quickly their image has deteriorated.

That's actually exactly how I feel about Anthropic. They play such a PR game, trying really really hard to be seen as the good guys. It feels as another satirical episode of Silicon Valley. It's very clear they are all money and power motivated while also pretending to do all of this for the good of humanity. I have rarely seen that level of hypocrisy and cultish behavior from leadership and employees there. I would…

Oh come on, like any other AI company is better? They all remind me of a comical villain - Anthropic the least.

Re: Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

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post #35

He's 72 years old, I'm sure he has the best brains and everyone's best interests in mind. This is exactly what I want to see. I'm sure he will have very good opinions on technology and it's implications.

I assume this is sarcasm?

The sarcasm is strong in this thread...

Re: Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So did Los Alamos? Edit: don't get me wrong, I'm a happy user. But I'd also be a happy consumer of refined sugar in the early 20th century. I'm still not sure if these tools won't destabilize society to the point of collapse. I don't think we understand the complexity of what's going on nearly enough, and am certainly not optimistic about AI being net good for us

This came up on the Lunch Money livestream yesterday. The entire episode is worth a listen but here's the relevant sections: Krugman: "I've been writing some about downsides of technological change and I realized afterwards that if I really wanted a really stellar example of a productive important innovation that had terrible effects on society would be the cotton gin." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxQbfbpf7M&t=2…

"And you look at that and you think that wasn't the technologies fault. That was the fault of the people who um who set up the political system that enabled it to work that way."

And that is what the public should focus on.

AI in its current state is neither fantastic nor a sure path to doom. It can be a boon to society for sure.

But a few individuals leading a few companies that burn 100s of billions of $$ to get the rest of society hooked (and maybe, dependent) on a subscription service, that is a problem.

For all I care it would be better if that were government-funded research, and results open source everyting. Tax the people once, society profits forever.

The way it works now looks more like an attempt at wealth transfer from the public to a few executives & VC's pockets, using AI as a vehicle.

Seems the Chinese are showing the way here?

Re: Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So did Los Alamos? Edit: don't get me wrong, I'm a happy user. But I'd also be a happy consumer of refined sugar in the early 20th century. I'm still not sure if these tools won't destabilize society to the point of collapse. I don't think we understand the complexity of what's going on nearly enough, and am certainly not optimistic about AI being net good for us

This came up on the Lunch Money livestream yesterday. The entire episode is worth a listen but here's the relevant sections: Krugman: "I've been writing some about downsides of technological change and I realized afterwards that if I really wanted a really stellar example of a productive important innovation that had terrible effects on society would be the cotton gin." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxQbfbpf7M&t=2…

> really stellar example of a productive important innovation that had terrible effects on society would be the cotton gin

That's a really surprising but immediately sensible example. It tweaked my brain. Thanks!

Re: Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

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Except Anthropic has delivered a truly world changing product…

8 months ago I asked this question, I will ask again: Where are your browsers? Where are your compilers? Where are your databases? Where are your operating systems? Can you point me to literally anything useful that works and was created by this world changing technology? All I see is dead project after dead project.

Can't believe people actually still think this
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