Working doc: how did Anthropic accelerate development or dilute policy efforts?
Published on August 23, 2025 3:16 AM GMTKey researchers at Anthropic took some counterproductive actions.[1] I hoped someone else would write a comprehensive post about this. I’m not a Bay Area insider, and did not track Anthropic closely. But I keep seeing people discuss incidents in side-conversations.The community needs an overview of what Anthropic researchers did over time since starting to collaborate at OpenAI. Especially since the focus of their work has shifted since people in the safety community invested (e.g. Tallinn, Moskovitz, Bankman-Fried), offered compute (e.g. Fathom Radiant), and referred engineers (e.g. 80k) their way. So I’m starting a https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R_EHt8Bqqz0R4Q3ASYRfaJMi1yvb5KfAfKZrvUExOW8/edit?usp=sharing