真正的Anthropic请站起来
公司多年来一直精通讲故事 IPO会揭开面具背后的公司还是更深入地走入神话中？
这个故事最初出现在我们关于AI的每周通讯"算法"中。 先在收件箱里写出这样的故事在这儿签名
经过数周的疯狂猜测后，Anthropic已经提交了IPO peopleus. 这份长达335页的文件(有100页左右的焦点是风险)阐述了公司对它正在建设的技术的独特观点，以及它认为它会改变世界的方式。
但Anthropic多年来一直在磨练讲故事的技巧。 事实上，它的公开信息是叙事捕捉中的一门主课。
本月早些时候，公司联合创始人兼政策主管杰克·克拉克在曼谷IMF会议上发表了演讲，他在会上向聚集在一起的经济学家、银行家和立法者发表演讲，指出独特性已经在这里。
推出由科幻小说家兼未来主义者Vernor Vinge在大约40多年前(在网络的更书呆子边缘上长期争论)所创作，奇点应该是技术获得如此好到超过其制造者能力的地方。
人类被抛弃在尘土中，思想消失，不再能够与他们以前创造的果实竞争，甚至无法理解。
我们很多人从小就想象的这个虚构的世界？Clark告诉观众：「我相信今年我们已经获得令人信服的证据
公司讲述了一个生动(在许多方面是可怕的)故事，讲述了它描绘的未来是不可避免的，但是一个尚未发生的，经常是同化自古老的科幻迷因。 它将其技术呈现为神秘而危险，并坚持认为它是唯一值得信赖的能够驯服它的公司。 (哪个投资者不愿意参与其中？)
又举一例。 去年，另一位Anthropic联合创始人克丽斯·奥拉赫被邀请去梵蒂冈演讲，他在那里告诉教宗利奥十四世和其他宗教学者和官员，他的公司正在了解它的技术。 称表示，“我们发现反省的证据。 我们发现内部的状态在功能上反映了快乐、满足、恐惧、悲伤和不安。”
Anthropic软件具有人性的内在经验。 Anthropic(和它的同行边境AI公司)说
我并不是说他们一定错了。 (这是另一天。 ) Anthropic等公司可以填补真空。
Anthropic是什么？但答案比你想的要难得多。
上星期我读到关于X的交流文章后，加尔文对Anthropic在其秘密向美国立法者散发的法案草案中所提出的立法感到不满(后来被泄露了).
Anthropic想被视作好人 Calvin 称。 但我们为什么要相信它？他问“Anthropic是什么？”
Anthropic是一家IPO价值超过1.5万亿美元的公司
但是，Anthropic一直坚持它不止于此。 如Calvin所指出：Anthropic可被视为AI安全组织，侧重于开发可靠和(几乎)无风险的强大技术。 或许是因为他们认为自己是最负责任的人，也可能是因为他们的自负。
事实上，Anthropic就是所有这些东西。 正如首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代(Dario Amodei)在回应Calvin的文章时所说：「我们的策略一直是我所说的‘种族至上'，将赛事推向顶峰的力量，我为我们的成绩感到自豪
阿莫代听起来好像他把一切都绑了起来，例如，AI安全组织的优先事项与由利润驱动的巨型公司之间存在巨大的紧张关系。 (阿摩地在职位上承认自己犯了错误。
Anthropic的故事最终会帮助我们理解它告诉我们的故事。 他们应该帮助我们确定，我们在多大程度上相信它能够自我调节，或者我们是否应该迫使它让外部安全测试者能够以我们的条件而不是他们的条件接触它的模型。 他们应该帮助我们，当一个看起来自私的立法被揭露时，给予它怀疑(或不怀疑)的好处。
但我认为故事揭示了一个多头海德拉。 Anthropic对许多人来说是很多事情，在许多方面，一个优秀的老式技术公司——没有科幻角色扮演，没有"宇"——会更容易阅读。
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Will the real Anthropic please stand up
The company has been masterful at storytelling for years. Will the IPO reveal the company behind the mask or lean deeper into the myth-making?
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After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document (100 pages or so are focused on risks) lays out the company’s unique view of the technology it is building and the ways it believes it will change the world.
But Anthropic has been honing its storytelling skills for years. In fact, its public messaging is a master class in narrative capture.
Earlier this month, Jack Clark, the company’s cofounder and head of policy, gave a speech at the IMF meeting in Bangkok in which he announced to the assembled economists, bankers, and lawmakers that the singularity is already here.
Introduced by the science fiction writer and futurist Vernor Vinge around 40 years ago (and long debated on the nerdier fringes of the internet), the singularity is supposed to be the point at which technology gets so good that it outstrips the abilities of its makers.
Humans are left in the dust, the idea goes, no longer able to compete with—or even understand—the fruits of their former creation.
And this fictional world that many of us have imagined since we were kids? Apparently we’re already living in it: “I believe that this year we have gained convincing evidence that it has now begun,” Clark told his audience.
The company tells a vivid (and in many ways scary) story about a future it portrays as inevitable but one that has not yet happened, often co-opted from well-worn science fiction memes. It presents its technology as mysterious and dangerous, and insists that it is the only company trustworthy enough to tame it. (What investor wouldn’t want in on that?)
Take another example. Last year, Chris Olah, another Anthropic cofounder, was invited to address the Vatican, where he told Pope Leo XIV and other religious scholars and officials what his company was learning about its technology. “I will be honest: We keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling,” he said. “We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease.”
Never mind that many researchers would scoff at such an overt suggestion that Anthropic’s software has humanlike inner experience. When so little seems certain, what Anthropic (and its fellow frontier AI companies) say is snatched up and clung to like pieces of a sinking ship.
I’m not saying they’re necessarily wrong about any of this. (That’s for another day.) But in a world where nobody knows what’s coming, companies like Anthropic get to fill the vacuum.
It’s worth taking a moment to ask: What is Anthropic? It might sound like a starter question on a family quiz show, but it’s far harder to answer than you might think.
The question has been on my mind since reading an exchange on X last week kicked off by Nathan Calvin, who is chief strategy officer at Encode AI, an organization based in Washington, DC, that advocates for regulation. Calvin was unhappy about the legislation that Anthropic proposed in a draft bill it circulated in secret to US lawmakers (which was then leaked).
Anthropic wants to be seen as the good guy, Calvin said. But why should we trust it? “What is Anthropic?” he asked.
Here’s one answer: Anthropic is a company whose IPO values it at more than $1.5 trillion, netting its cofounders, including Clark and Olah, vast wealth.
But Anthropic has always insisted it is more than that. As Calvin noted: Anthropic might instead be considered an AI safety organization focused on developing powerful technology that is reliable and (almost) risk-free. Or it might be considered a group of people hell-bent on creating a technology with superhuman capabilities before anyone else—maybe because they believe they’re the most responsible people to do so, or maybe because of their egos.
In fact, Anthropic is all of these things. As CEO Dario Amodei put it in a reply to Calvin’s post: “Our strategy has always been what I’ve called the ‘race to the top’—by showing how it’s possible to build the technology responsibly, we can raise the bar for the entire industry. The forces that drive the race to the top are hugely more effective if the company practicing them is at the frontier; that’s one lesson I’ve learned repeatedly. And looking at that strategy as a whole, I’m proud of our track record and stand by it.”
Amodei makes it sound as if he’s got it all tied up, but playing multiple roles is hard. There are huge tensions between the priorities of an AI safety organization and a profit-driven megacorp, for example. (Amodei admits in his post that he has made mistakes.)
Ultimately, the stories Anthropic tells itself should help us understand the stories it tells us. They should help us figure out how much to trust it to self-regulate or whether we should be forcing it to give external safety testers access to its models on our terms rather than theirs. They should help us give it the benefit of the doubt (or not) when what looks like a self-serving piece of legislation comes to light.
But I think the stories reveal a multiheaded hydra. Anthropic is many things to many people, and I’m not sure that makes it more trustworthy. In many ways, a good old-fashioned technology company—without the science fiction role-play, without the woo-woo—would be far easier to read.
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