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Anthropic's leading researchers acted as moderate accelerationists — LessWrong

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Comment by Raemon - Periodically I've considered writing a post similar to this. A piece that I think this doesn't fully dive into is "did Anthropic have a commitment not to push the capability frontier?". I had once written a doc aimed at Anthropic employees, during SB 1047 Era, when I had been felt like Anthropic was advocating for changes to the law that were hard to interpret un-cynically.[1] I've had a vague intention to rewrite this into a more public facing thing, but, for now I'm just going to lift out the section talking about the "pushing the capability frontier" thing. 1. ^ in particular, advocating for removing the whistleblower clause, and simulaneously arguing that "we don't know how to make a good SSP yet, which is why there shouldn't yet be regulations about how to do it" while also arguing "companies liability for catastrophic harms should be dependent on how good their SSP was."

x Anthropic's leading researchers acted as moderate accelerationists — LessWrong Anthropic (org) AI Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 13 % 129 Anthropic's leading researchers acted as moderate accelerationists by Remmelt 1st Sep 2025 50 min read 72 129 In 2021, a circle of researchers left OpenAI, after a bitter dispute with their executives. They started a competing company, Anthropic, stating that they wanted to put safety first. The safety community responded with broad support. Thought leaders recommended engineers to apply, and allied billionaires invested. [1] Anthropic’s focus has shifted – fro

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