David Shapiro (L/0)@DaveShapi
My personal view is that Anthropic has been ideologically captured by Effective Altruism and that the leadership of Anthropic explicitly and sincerely believes that:
1. Superintelligence is intrinsically uncontrollable. The best we can do is create it in such a way that it will be "friendly."
2. That they (and only they) are skilled and competent enough to land this outcome, and that they should have unique privileges and authority to shape this technology and humanity should just sit back and let them.
3. That "steering from within" via regulatory capture, integration with the establishment, and narrative control are the correct and appropriate tools, because they explicitly believe "democracy is too slow."
That's what they believe, as far as I can tell, having studied Effective Altruism and AI Doomerism and the LessWrong "rationalism" for the last few years.