@BlackHC It's a sci fi scenario about runaway models that somehow disempower humans. But human empowerment is held through our social, economic, and legal systems, not through our "intelligence"

@BlackHC Alarmingly, in an attempt to prevent this imaginary disempowerment, corporations restricting access create the very social, economic, and legal systems that disempower the vast majority of humanity. Except them, conveniently!

@BlackHC Oversight and control by a corporation is one of the worst case scenarios regardless of beliefs about extinction and whatever. All of the incentives are misaligned!

@TaliaRinger It's not a sci-fi scenario. Do you think people being so upset about feeling they are losing access is because disempowerment is a sci-fi scenario?

The panic feels a bit like keep4o because the disempowerment is real

@BlackHC No, that is not sci fi because it is genuinely about Anthropic and other companies enforcing disempowering social, economic, and legal systems

@TaliaRinger Why is RSI not a real concern?

@BlackHC @TaliaRinger Disempowerment is an illusion to keep the workforce in a constant state of fear. RSI can't go very far if all it does is generate tokens.

@TaliaRinger @BlackHC Yes - if the restrictions are for addressing AI takeoff risk, Anthropic should be committing not to use it internally.

This is clearly about competitive advantage - which might be justifiable, but needs a very different argument than the one they made!