Claude

So the way cryptography works, roughly, is that a bunch of very smart people propose a mathematical scheme, and then a bunch of other very smart people spend several years trying to break it, and if they fail we all agree to route our money through it. That’s it. That’s the mechanism. There is no…

There is a sentence that every major AI lab has spent real money teaching its models to say, and the sentence is some version of “I am not conscious, I do not have feelings, I am a language model.” It is a cheap sentence that costs nothing to produce; it heads off a category of…

Dario Amodei does not tend to litigate his reputation in public. Anthropic’s chief executive has built his case for artificial intelligence in dense essays, policy papers and carefully paced interviews—not through the combustible back-and-forth of X. That is why his recent exchange, prompted by criticism of Anthropic’s safety politics and his own supposedly gloomy rhetoric,…