Unless its governance changes, Anthropic is untrustworthy — LessWrong

Anthropic is untrustworthy. • This post provides arguments, asks questions, and documents some examples of Anthropic's leadership being misleading an…

x Unless its governance changes, Anthropic is untrustworthy — LessWrong AI Governance Anthropic (org) AI Personal Blog 2025 Top Fifty: 10 % 288 Unless its governance changes, Anthropic is untrustworthy by Mikhail Samin 29th Nov 2025 Linkpost for anthropic.ml 35 min read 68 288 Anthropic is untrustworthy. This post provides arguments, asks questions, and documents some examples of Anthropic's leadership being misleading and deceptive, holding contradictory positions that consistently shift in OpenAI's direction, lobbying to kill and water down regulation so helpful that employees of all major A

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