Anthropic has been at the heart of the brewing drama over whether or not the government should regulate the AI industry. Specifically, the company – which has advocated modest regulations – has been accused by a White House official of suppressing “controlled capture.” On Tuesday, the company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, wrote in a long post published on the anthropic website that sought to dispel suspicions about the company, while emphasizing its commitment to “American AI Leadership.”
“Anthropic is committed to constructive engagement in public policy issues. We say so. When we say it, we propose an alternative that deserves consideration,” Amodei wrote. “We’re doing this because we’re a public interest organization with a mission to make sure AI benefits everyone, and because we want to lead the way with the Trump administration, both parties.”
Amodei also made conciliatory gestures with those in charge. “I strongly agree with the comments of the President of JD VD Vence on AI – especially his point that we need to increase people who help people, such as the success of medicines and in the prevention of diseases,” wrote the CEO. “This position is smart and in great demand in the community.”
In short: It seems that anthropic wants to do good with the White House, if only to get the administration officials to stop drowning themselves from the social media.
Many criticisms against Amodei’s company are led by Paypal Mafia Alumni and the new White House “Crypto and Ayi Czar” David sacks. Sacks, a man many in Silicon Valley see as a big jerk, was in tears about the fight against Anthropic, accusing X of “using a controlled capture strategy.” The sacks also say that at the beginning ‘mainly responsible for the state-controlled state that is harmful and harmful. ” In a separate social media post, the sacks also say that the aventhroor has a “backdoor agenda ake ai and other AI laws by using Californians like California.”
The argument stems from the ideological battle currently wreaking havoc on the AI industry. On the other side of this debate are companies like anthropic, who think the AI industry should be easily regulated. Critics inside and outside the tech industry have accused this rhetoric of self-delusion. The theory is that these are not facts with a rational direction but an unprecedented attempt to control the rules surrounding the AI business that are emerging and therefore, Then there are the techs of acceleration, who seem to feel that any kind of AI principles are not true “humanity” (or, you know, their books in the pocket). In short: It’s a battle between companies that argue for some kind of techno-modification (although there may be automatic moderation) and hapless tech “Optimists” who feel that moderation is a dirty word.
It turns out that, so far, the tech giants are winning, as their sympathizers are currently building the white house. Anthropic is also one of the major AI companies (besides Elon Musk’s Xai) that did not participate in the White House’s Stargate plans, which want to develop a new AI infrastructure in the US in the form of data. Opena is at the heart of the star effort, but other companies – including OpenAi’s sugar daddy, Microsoft, Oracle, Nvidia, and ARM – are also participating.
