The timing makes me think it didn’t happen on schedule and they are announcing this now in response to save face and pre-empt bad PR from this post (though I am only like 75% confident that something like that is going on, and my guess is the appointment itself has been in the works for a while). Seems IMO like a bad sign to do that without being clear about the timing and the degree to which a past commitment was violated.
(Also importantly, they said they would appoint a fifth board-member, but instead it seems like this board member replaced Luke, so they actually stuck to 4)
I bet the timing is a coincidence or due to internal questions/pressure, not PR concerns. Regardless I should ask someone at Anthropic how this post was received within Anthropic.
The plan was for the Trust to elect a fifth board member and also eventually replace Luke and Daniela. I totally believe Anthropic that Luke’s departure was unrelated to Jay’s arrival and generally non-suspicious. [Edit: but I do wish he’d been replaced with a safety-focused board member. My weak impression is that OP has the right to fill that seat until the Trust does; probably OP wants to distance itself from Anthropic but just giving up a board seat seems like a bad call.]
I originally reacted skeptically to this, but I am actually not that skeptical of “they posted now prompted by this, but this was in the works for a while”. (I missed “this was in the works for a while” on my first read of your comment.)
The timing makes me think it didn’t happen on schedule and they are announcing this now in response to save face and pre-empt bad PR from this post (though I am only like 75% confident that something like that is going on, and my guess is the appointment itself has been in the works for a while). Seems IMO like a bad sign to do that without being clear about the timing and the degree to which a past commitment was violated.
(Also importantly, they said they would appoint a fifth board-member, but instead it seems like this board member replaced Luke, so they actually stuck to 4)
Looks like it was timed to come out before today’s TIME articles.
I bet the timing is a coincidence or due to internal questions/pressure, not PR concerns. Regardless I should ask someone at Anthropic how this post was received within Anthropic.
The plan was for the Trust to elect a fifth board member and also eventually replace Luke and Daniela. I totally believe Anthropic that Luke’s departure was unrelated to Jay’s arrival and generally non-suspicious. [Edit: but I do wish he’d been replaced with a safety-focused board member. My weak impression is that OP has the right to fill that seat until the Trust does; probably OP wants to distance itself from Anthropic but just giving up a board seat seems like a bad call.]
I originally reacted skeptically to this, but I am actually not that skeptical of “they posted now prompted by this, but this was in the works for a while”. (I missed “this was in the works for a while” on my first read of your comment.)
No, I just gaslit you. I edited it when I saw your reaction as a clarification. Sorry about that, should have left a note that I edited it.