Artificial Guarantees
Anthropic
Founded:
2021
Reported Valuation:
$60 billion
CEO:
Dario Amodei
What They Say: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of the dangers of US-China AI racing
What They Do: Amodei proposes a dangerous race, advocating the use of recursive self-improvement
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What They Say: AI systems have the potential to cause large-scale destruction within 1-3 years
What They Do: Lobby against the enforcement of AI safety standards in California
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What They Say: The mitigation of extinction risks as a result of AI should be a global priority
What They Do: Lobby for AI companies to only be fined after a catastrophic event occurs
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What They Say: Governments around the world should create testing and auditing regimes
What They Do: Lobby against testing and auditing proposed by California regulators
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What They Say: Anthropic will not work to advance state-of-the-art capabilities
What They Do: Releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet and states that it “raises the industry bar for intelligence, outperforming competitor models… on a wide range of evaluations”.
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OpenAI
Founded:
2015
Reported Valuation:
$300 billion
CEO:
Sam Altman
What They Say: OpenAI is cautious with the creation and deployment of their models
What They Do: OpenAI is “pulling up” releases in response to competition
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What They Say: OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman argues that building AGI fast is safer, because it avoids a compute overhang
What They Do: OpenAI announces Stargate, a $500 billion AI infrastructure project
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What They Say: OpenAI understands the need for AI regulations and cares about AI safety
What They Do: Lobby the EU to reduce AI regulations
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What They Say: OpenAI is a non-profit so they can "stay accountable to humanity as a whole"
What They Do: OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, tells shareholders that OpenAI is considering becoming a for-profit corporation
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What They Say: Altman states that the risks of AI development going bad would result in “lights out for all of us”
What They Do: Claims that now his worst fear is industry impacts
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What They Say: The risks of AI development going bad would result in “lights out for all of us”
What They Do: Shift their framing, now promising that AGI will "change the world much less than we think”
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