Anthropic is worth $1T — and it's spending it all on safety
anthropic's strategy relies on accumulating power to ensure safe ai. critics argue this creates a dangerous concentration of control.
anthropic asserts that maintaining a position at the frontier of ai development is the only way to ensure the technology is safe, comparing the situation to rushing into a magical forest to tame monsters before others do. the company's leadership identifies as the 'good guys' and views the accumulation of capital, compute, and influence as the price of stewardship for transformative ai. critics, however, worry that this strategy mirrors the power concentration of rivals like openai and meta. the debate highlights the tension between competitive deployment and safety regulation.