Anthropic’s Safety Paradox: Racing Toward Powerful AI While Warning Humanity
Few companies in artificial intelligence embody contradiction as clearly as Anthropic. Founded by former OpenAI researchers with a mission centered on safety, alignment, and responsible development, the company has consistently positioned itself as the moral counterweight to an industry obsessed with speed, scale, and market dominance. Yet as Anthropic’s valuation climbs into the hundreds of billions and its models grow ever more powerful, the company finds itself locked in an internal struggle that mirrors the broader crisis facing the AI industry: how to warn the world about existential risks while actively accelerating toward them. This tension is no longer theoretical. … Read more