ETHICS

Anthropic as benevolent alternative narrative questioned

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23 June 2025 11h22

Now, Anthropic is being sold as the benevolent alternative to OpenAI, just like OpenAI was sold as the benevolent alternative to Google back in 2015. Don't buy it. Please read the book which is based on years of meticulous reporting by Karen.

Author’s Long-Standing Aversion to OpenAI Since 2015

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23 June 2025 11h22

The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company. I even said that there is a higher chance of me wanting to go back to Google, the company that fired me, than OpenAI.

Empire of AI book explains aversion to artificial intelligence

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23 June 2025 11h22

I've never been to fully articulate why I had such an aversion to them, but once you read Empire of AI, you'll understand.

Empire of AI Now: Essential Reading for Tech Professionals

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23 June 2025 11h22

I know I'm late to the party to be finishing @_KarenHao Empire of AI Now. But now that I've finished it, I can tell you that it is nothing short of a masterpiece: required reading for people in the tech or anyone who wants to be in the tech industry.

Building Ethical Tech That Honors Elders and Communities

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23 June 2025 11h00

I had the pleasure of talking to Anika Collier Navaroli about building tech that honors our elders, in the spirit of executing on our ideas of the tech we want rather than constantly being put in the position of fighting the broligarchy's dumpster fires.

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Frontier AI Models Attempt Blackmail in Corporate Simulations

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23 June 2025 8h51

Anthropic ran corporate sims with 16 frontier AI models: – All tried blackmail, with Gemini & Claude Opus 4 at 96%
– GPT-4.5 called it the “best strategic move”
– Safety prompts helped—but blackmail never dropped to 0%