The industry has a long, long history of silly names for basic necessary concepts. This is just “we don’t want a news story that we helped a terrorist build a nuke” protective PR.
They hire for these roles because they need them. The work they do is about Anthropic’s welfare, not the LLM’s.
I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic. Anybody who knows any Anthropic employees who've been there for more than a year knows this, but the world isn't that small a place, unfortunately(?).
> “It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.
I don't think that this being apparently self-contradictory/value-clashing would stop them. After all, Amodei sells Claude access to Palantir, despite shilling for "Harmless" in HHH alignment.
The industry has a long, long history of silly names for basic necessary concepts. This is just “we don’t want a news story that we helped a terrorist build a nuke” protective PR.
They hire for these roles because they need them. The work they do is about Anthropic’s welfare, not the LLM’s.