@BlackHC You’re right, in fact, we should hope to see monopolies everywhere! Winner-takes-all scenarious have historically proven to be the best outcome for everyone! When VW dominated the EU car market they were also motivated and able to preserve ecological standards better than ever.

The point was that if you have a strongly competitive race, it is more likely that all skimp on safety vs if one company has a lead and also strongly invests in AI safety etc

RE board: you mean like Google? Yeah that is a risk but then Anthropic does have better governance in place and it is for benefit and not for profit. So overall it is more trustworthy compared to OpenAI and Google right now

@mtavitschlegel Not sure this is comparable. What are your thoughts on the coordination issue in a race scenario? Do you have any?

@BlackHC I thought you worked for Google, are you looking to switch to Anthropic? Or am I missing some layered sarcasm in your message?

@BlackHC Anthropic is literally the most hawkish of all the labs save xai. They were the first to collaborate with palantir and therefore the DoD. Their models have provably been used to kill people.

@UltraTopSecret I'm not sure I'm really really great, so it doesn't apply to me 🥲

@BlackHC I kinda disagree with the premise that we need that. We also don't rely on coordinated self-regulation eg in aviation or pharma? For this we have democratically controlled third parties. But if one comp dominates, you get information asymmetry, no peer comparisons etc. Also, what

@BlackHC …if the definition of safe or the measures to ensure safety by the one completely dominating company fail? What if one day their board wakes up and decides to not care about whatever you care about anymore? If you’re a customer you cannot even change anymore then?

@BlackHC ngl the "im leaving for Anthropic" announcement template is getting stale, even if their governance is solid

@BlackHC the governance pitch only works if the lead actually compounds

right now its mostly reputation and that erodes fast if the next model cycle goes sideways

@BlackHC Negotiate with whom? America is more dangerous than China. And monopolistic control of AI is worse than democratic control.

Coordination is much easier if America does not have a clear lead, as that gives them no incentive to negotiate. Does it look like they want to pause?

@BlackHC What evidence is there that ant has the best gouvernance?

Not saying they don’t. Just curious

@BlackHC NO

@BlackHC if sam atman not trusted why you know dario amodei trusted

@BlackHC Governance may be the most underrated hiring pitch in AI. Talent follows labs where the scaling plan does not feel reckless.

@BlackHC what is people’s obsession with safety man?

@BlackHC If you’re pushing forward a technology that can put millions out of work and can be a threat to humanity then, by definition, that is bad governance and you should not work there

@BlackHC Best governance so far 🤣🤣🤣 you mean broke every foundational principle they pretended to hold until they could fully pivot into the grift

@BlackHC The best outcome is possible only when there isn't any monopoly. We need 5-10 top tier labs, which are at same level.

@vanishinggradi2 @BlackHC prove it?