«

Anthropic: Stay strong!

I don’t have time to write a full post right now, but hopefully this is self-explanatory.

Regardless of their broader views on the AI industry, the eventual risks from AI, or American politics, right every person of conscience needs to stand behind Anthropic, as they stand up for their right to [checks notes] not be effectively nationalized by the Trump administration and forced to build murderbots and to help surveil American citizens. No, I wouldn’t have believed this either in a science-fiction movie, but it’s now just the straightforward reality of our world, years ahead of schedule. In particular, I call on all other AI companies, in the strongest possible terms, to do the right thing and stand behind Anthropic, in this make-or-break moment for the AI industry and the entire world.

Email, RSS Follow

This entry was posted on Friday, February 27th, 2026 at 1:37 pm and is filed under Announcements, The Fate of Humanity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

You can use rich HTML in comments! You can also use basic TeX, by enclosing it within $$ $$ for displayed equations or \( \) for inline equations.

Comment Policies:

After two decades of mostly-open comments, in July 2024 Shtetl-Optimized transitioned to the following policy:

All comments are treated, by default, as personal missives to me, Scott Aaronson---with no expectation either that they'll appear on the blog or that I'll reply to them.

At my leisure and discretion, and in consultation with the Shtetl-Optimized Committee of Guardians, I'll put on the blog a curated selection of comments that I judge to be particularly interesting or to move the topic forward, and I'll do my best to answer those. But it will be more like Letters to the Editor. Anyone who feels unjustly censored is welcome to the rest of the Internet.

To the many who've asked me for this over the years, you're welcome!