“Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.”
That’s a famous line from perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader from more than 20 years ago, and it echoes back to what Greek general Pericles said around 420 BCE. Politics will find and change you, whether you want it to or not. Which brings us to Anthropic.
Altman told employees at the all-hands that the government is willing to let OpenAI build its own “safety stack”—that is, a layered system of technical, policy, and human controls that sit between a powerful AI model and real-world use—and that if the model refuses to perform a task, then the government would not force OpenAI to make it do so.
See you tomorrow,
