3. (a) explain why I think it’s fine to release frontier models, and explain what this belief depends on, and (b) note that maybe Anthropic made commitments about this in the past but clarify that they now have no force.
4. Currently my impression is that Anthropic folks are discouraged from publicly talking about Anthropic policies. This is maybe reasonable to avoid the situation an Anthropic staff member says something incorrect/nonpublic and this causes confusion and makes Anthropic look bad. But if Anthropic clarified that it renounces possible past non-frontier-pushing commitments, then it could let staff members publicly talk about stuff with the goal of figuring out who told whom what around 2022 without risking mistakes about policies.
3. (a) explain why I think it’s fine to release frontier models, and explain what this belief depends on, and (b) note that maybe Anthropic made commitments about this in the past but clarify that they now have no force.
4. Currently my impression is that Anthropic folks are discouraged from publicly talking about Anthropic policies. This is maybe reasonable to avoid the situation an Anthropic staff member says something incorrect/nonpublic and this causes confusion and makes Anthropic look bad. But if Anthropic clarified that it renounces possible past non-frontier-pushing commitments, then it could let staff members publicly talk about stuff with the goal of figuring out who told whom what around 2022 without risking mistakes about policies.
Ah makes sense. Point #4 is interesting. Probably not really scalable/repeatable without things getting weird but might work as a one-of.