alt Hacker NewsRe: shooting them down, I think there are a lot of people out there that consider the US a bigger threat than China. Maybe they're right, I don't know. But I do know that as an American, I'm not looking forward to finding out.
And then there are probably people who are more politically neutral who think Anthropic is using China as an excuse to crush competition. Which could also be true.
But fundamentally, if this technology is so dangerous, why does anyone get to control it?
I thought Dwarkesh's position was pretty thoughtful: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dow-anthropic
> Nobody is qualified to steward the development of superintelligence. It is a terrifying, unprecedented thing that our species is doing right now, and the fact that private companies aren’t the ideal institutions to take up this task does not mean the Pentagon or the White House is.
> The only way we can preserve our free society is if we make laws and norms through our political system that it is unacceptable for the government to use AI to enforce mass surveillance and censorship and control. Just as after WW2, the world set the norm that it is unacceptable to use nuclear weapons to wage war.