Silicon Valley doomers worry that generative artificial intelligence will supercharge global risk. OpenAI rival Anthropic positions itself as an ultra-safe, responsible AI start-up. That does not mean it will escape regulator scrutiny.
Anthropic is run by siblings and former OpenAI employees Dario and Daniela Amodei, chief executive and president respectively. Based in San Francisco, not far from OpenAI’s headquarters, it seeks to create AI models that follow a set of guiding principles. This month, it published research that examined bias in its AI-powered chatbot Claude. Not to be outdone, OpenAI has released its own safety plan assessing potential catastrophes.
This will please Washington worrywarts. But the US Federal Trade Commission’s Lina Khan has more prosaic concerns. She is interested in the ways in which Big Tech companies are investing in AI start-ups like Anthropic, in effect concentrating power in a new sector.