AI SAFETY & ETHICS

What is Anthropic?

LessWrong AI

What is Anthropic? How does it relate to Claude? What is OpenAI? What is ChatGPT? How does OpenAI relate to it? Is it a mere tool? Is a future of Tool AI a thing, and why do people keep claiming that it is, or that saying makes it so? This post organizes and gives context for a bunch of discussions and messaging on Twitter that would otherwise be quickly buried and lost. Here is one theory, and various people thinking about it. Roon as always is using rhetorical flourish (e.g.