Oh yeah, agree with the last sentence, I just guess that OpenAI has way more employees who are like “I don’t really give these abstract existential risk concerns much thought, this is a cool/fun/exciting job” and Anthropic has way more people who are like “I care about doing the most good and so I’ve decided that helping this safety-focused US company win this race is the way to do that”. But I might well be mistaken about what the current ~2.5k OpenAI employees think, I don’t talk to them much!
The standard refrain is that Anthropic is better than [the counterfactual, especially OpenAI but also China], I think.
Worry about China gives you as much reason to work on capabilities at OpenAI etc. as at Anthropic.
Oh yeah, agree with the last sentence, I just guess that OpenAI has way more employees who are like “I don’t really give these abstract existential risk concerns much thought, this is a cool/fun/exciting job” and Anthropic has way more people who are like “I care about doing the most good and so I’ve decided that helping this safety-focused US company win this race is the way to do that”. But I might well be mistaken about what the current ~2.5k OpenAI employees think, I don’t talk to them much!