Discussion

• @davidsacks David Sacks on x

  Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering. It is principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem.

• @jackclarksf Jack Clark on x

  @DavidSacks It's through working with the startup ecosystem that we've updated our views on regulation - and of importance for a federal standard. More details in thread, but we'd love to work with you on this, particularly supporting a new generation of startups leveraging AI.

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  Everyone should read the whole essay for themselves. It was even better in person - you can tell when someone cares deeply and is giving it to you straight, as they see it.

• @deryatr_ Derya Unutmaz on x

  This is why I choose not to use Anthropic AI models. Although they are quite good & I am sure there are some amazing AI researchers working there, I believe their stance on regulatory capture & fear-mongering is so damaging to AI progress that I cannot indirectly support it. ☹️

• @sriramk Sriram Krishnan on x

  On AI safety lobbying: Fascinating to see the reaction on X to @DavidSacks post yesterday especially from the AI safety/EA community. Think a few things are going on (a) the EA/ AI safety / “doomer” lobby was natural allies with the left and now find themselves out of power.

• @plzbepatient @plzbepatient on x

  Anyone that Scott “AIDS transmission decriminalizer” Wiener supports should instantly be looked at with extreme scrutiny.

• @shaughnessy119 Tommy on x

  I feel like the top is in for closed model AI reg capture - OpenAI lawsuit backfiring - White House / Sacks calling out Anthropic for fear mongering - China topping open source AI leaderboards (US needs to innovate here)

• @dissenter_hi @dissenter_hi on x

  I've known @jackclarkSF for I guess... 15 years now? I would consider him a best friend. Jack is a very sincere and thoughtful man. I've watched him for the past 5 years grapple with the weight of his reality, I've watched him think through how to go about preparing the

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  There has always been some daylight between the influencer/VC crowd and the engineer/researchers in tech, but on the subject of AI regulation it is a complete chasm

• @bscholl Blake Scholl on x

  @DavidSacks Regulatory capture is unethical and we need to make it socially unacceptable

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  If we're gonna talk about politicians defending companies...

• @jackclarksf Jack Clark on x

  Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear - an essay where I grapple with how I feel about the continued steady march towards powerful AI systems. The world will bend around AI akin to how a black hole pulls and bends everything around itself. [image]

• @s_oheigeartaigh @s_oheigeartaigh on x

  @sriramk @DavidSacks I must acknowledge some good points here: - I think (parts of) AI safety has indeed at points over-anchored on very short timelines and very high p(doom)s - I think it's prob true that forecasting efforts haven't always drawn on a diverse enough set of expert…

• @jason @jason on x

  As we discussed on the pod, I'm trying to find the most dangerous things related to AI that we need to potentially regulate, that aren't already covered by existing laws. Only things that comes to mind is children's use of the technology, creating unique bioweapons/etc and of

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  “It is hard to trust policy work when it is clear there is an ideology you are being sold behind it.” Yes, but this is equally true of the other side — notable, for instance, that export control policy shifts in response to Trump's meetings with Jensen Huang.

• @silvermanjacob Jacob Silverman on x

  What is the “race we can't afford to lose” with China? What's the endgame? What makes this colossal resource expenditure and surrender of power to authoritarian big tech worth it?

• @idrawcharts David Holt on x

  comms fun: “My broad view on a lot of AI safety organizations is they have smart people (including many friends) doing good technical work on AI capabilities but they lack epistemic humility on their biases or a broad range of intellectual diversity in their employee base which

• @s_oheigeartaigh @s_oheigeartaigh on x

  Sacks' post irked me, but I must acknowledge some good points here: - I think (parts of) AI safety has indeed at points over-anchored on very short timelines and very high p(doom)s - I think it's prob true that forecasting efforts haven't always drawn on a diverse enough set of

• @robinhanson Robin Hanson on x

  “you could easily have someone looking at Pagerank in 1997 and doing a ‘bio risk uplift study’ and deciding Google and search is a threat to mankind. or ‘microprocessor computational safety’ in the 1980s forecasting Moore's law as the chart that leads us to doom.”

• @jonst0kes Jon Stokes on x

  Great post. Endorsed. Especially this part. Total lack of humility or awareness of their own blind spots. It's truly something. [image]

• @davidsacks David Sacks on x

  “It is hard to trust policy work when it is clear there is an ideology you are being sold behind it.”

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  way to go scott, you really made a difference with your tweet! we are all so proud of you.

• @dareasmunhoz Diego Areas Munhoz on x

  This is a pretty remarkable rebuke of a major American AI company by the WH AI Czar. But if you read our item from a few weeks ago you'd know Anthropic has chosen a different path from this admins AI doctrine https://punchbowl.news/...

• @austinc3301 Agus on x

  The irony of Sacks accusing others of regulatory capture when his network of his people have successfully captured the executive government in service of the pro-AI lobby

• @rabois Keith Rabois on x

  @DavidSacks true.

• @hamandcheese Samuel Hammond on x

  @DavidSacks Have you considered that Jack is simply being sincere?

• @rabois Keith Rabois on x

  @DavidSacks just ignore him.

• @s_oheigeartaigh @s_oheigeartaigh on x

  @DavidSacks Nobody would write something that sounds as batshit to normies as this essay does, and release it publicly, unless they actually believed it.

• @basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x

  @DavidSacks Thanks for calling it out like it is, David 🙏

• @doodlestein Jeffrey Emanuel on x

  @DavidSacks Whether or not they sincerely believe this stuff or it's a cynical regulatory capture strategy long-game, the net results are the same, which is that it slows us down and helps China overtake us in this critical technology.

• @humanharlan Harlan Stewart on x

  @DavidSacks I think that what Jack is expressing here is pretty similar to what you have said about efforts to build human-level AI systems: “AGI is a potential successor species.”

• @daniel_mac8 Dan Mac on x

  @DavidSacks You may be right about that but it is ignoring half the message of this blog post: [image]

• @jackclarksf Jack Clark on x

  @chamath We partner with thousands of startups and are excited to help build out a new commercial ecosystem based on our coding models. On regulation, we agree - this is much better left to the federal government, and we said this when SB53 passed.

• @jackclarksf Jack Clark on x

  @DavidSacks It's actually through working with startups we've learned that simple regulations would benefit the entire ecosystem - especially if you include a threshold to protect startups. We outlined how such a threshold could work in our transparency framework. [image]

• @tszzl Roon on x

  @DavidSacks it's obvious they are sincere

• @s_oheigeartaigh @s_oheigeartaigh on x

  A small handful of Thiel business associates and a16z/Scale AI executives literally occupy every key AI position in USG, from which lofty position they tell us about regulatory capture. I love 2025, peak comedy.

• @davidsacks David Sacks on x

  Scott Weiner's rushing to defend Anthropic tells you everything you need to know about how closely they're working together to impose the Left's vision of AI regulation.

• @buccocapital @buccocapital on x

  $AMZN shareholders watching David Sacks threaten to destroy Anthropic, the last remaining hope for AWS re-acceleration [image]

• @sundeep Sunny Madra on x

  One company is causing chaos for the entire industry.

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  Truth.

• @ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x

  always projection with this one, impossible to believe someone could have a sincere point of view

• @scott_wiener Senator Scott Wiener on x

  This is propaganda. @AnthropicAI understands that you can innovate & build powerful models while also looking out for public health & safety. Your boss's effort to ban states from acting on AI w/o advancing federal protections is all we need to know about the regime's motives.

• @chamath Chamath Palihapitiya on x

  I wonder if those that use Claude Code or the umpteen app-crappers that wrap Anthropic realize they are funding their own demise?  Only the biggest and well funded companies (like Anthropic) will be able to afford the operational complexity of meeting 50 different sets of state A…

• @rabois Keith Rabois on x

  If Anthropic actually believed their rhetoric about safety, they can always shut down the company. And lobby then.

• r/claudexplorers r on reddit

  Bloomberg, “Anthropic's AI Principles Make It a White House Target”