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Anthropic Is at War With Itself - The Atlantic

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The AI company shouting about AI’s dangers can’t quite bring itself to slow down.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 21:21 Updated at 4:44 p.m. ET on January 28, 2026 T hese are not the words you want to hear when it comes to human extinction, but I was hearing them: “Things are moving uncomfortably fast.” I was sitting in a conference room with Sam Bowman, a safety researcher at Anthropic. Worth $183 billion at the latest estimate, the AI firm has every incentive to speed things up, ship more products, and develop more advanced chatbots to stay competitive with the likes of OpenAI, Google, and the industry’s other giants. But Anthropic is at odds with itself—thinking deeply, even

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