Хиймэл оюун ухааны салбарт тэргүүлэгч Anthropic компани технологийн дэвшлийг аюулгүй удирдан чиглүүлэх замаар салбарын стандартыг тогтоохыг зорьж байна.
Сүүлийн таван жилийн турш Anthropic компани хиймэл оюун ухаан (AI) нь нийгмийг тогтворгүйжүүлж, сүйрэлд хүргэж болзошгүйг анхааруулсаар ирсэн. Гэвч үүний зэрэгцээ тус компани нь хамгийн дэвшилтэт AI загваруудыг хөгжүүлж, АНУ-ын цэргийн хүчин зэрэг томоохон харилцагчидтай хамтран ажиллах замаар зах зээлд хүчтэй байр суурь эзэлж байна. Бараг 1 их наяд ам.долларын үнэлгээтэй тус компани энэхүү үйл ажиллагаагаа аюулгүй байдлыг хангах стратегийн салшгүй хэсэг гэж үзэж байна.
Компанийн удирдлага болон ажилтнуудын үзэж буйгаар, AI-ийн хөгжил нь хүний түүхэн дэх хамгийн том өөрчлөлт бөгөөд үүнийг зогсоох боломжгүй юм. Тиймээс тэд зах зээлийн өрсөлдөөнд тэргүүлж, хөрөнгө, хүний нөөц, улс төрийн нөлөөгөө ашиглан AI-ийн аюултай талуудыг хязгаарлах, ашиг тусыг нь нэмэгдүүлэх “хариуцлагатай удирдагчийн” үүргийг гүйцэтгэхийг эрмэлздэг. Жоржтауны их сургуулийн ХАБ-ын мэргэжилтэн Хелен Тонерын тайлбарласнаар, Anthropic нь бусдаас түрүүлж дэвшилтэт технологи бүтээх замаар аюулгүй байдлын асуудлыг хэлэлцэх ширээний ард жинтэй байр суурь эзлэхийг зорьж байна.
2021 онд OpenAI-ийн аюулгүй байдлын бодлогод сэтгэл дундуур байсан хуучин ажилтнуудын үүсгэн байгуулсан Anthropic нь Сэм Олтман тэргүүтэй OpenAI, Meta болон Илон Маскийн xAI зэрэг компаниудыг аюулгүй байдлын хувьд сэрэмжлүүлэг болгон авч үздэг. Гүйцэтгэх захирал Дарио Амодейн хэлснээр, өрсөлдөх чадвартай байж, салбарыг тэргүүлэх нь аюулгүй байдлыг хангах цорын ганц арга зам юм. Ийнхүү тэд технологийн “ой”-д бусдаас илүү гүн нэвтэрч, аюултай “мангасуудыг” номхруулахыг зорин ажиллаж байна.
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Anthropic has spent the last five years warning the world about how advanced artificial intelligence could enable mass destruction, destabilize society, and cause a litany of other grave harms. But simultaneously, it has become one of the most powerful forces pushing AI capabilities forward. The company is now among the top developers and distributors of cutting-edge AI models and courts customers like the US military. It was recently valued at almost $1 trillion.
At first glance, Anthropic’s stark messaging and its actions seem fundamentally at odds.
But inside the company, many people don’t see a contradiction. To understand why, you first have to understand that Anthropic operates based on two core beliefs. The first is that artificial intelligence is the most transformative technology in human history, and its arrival is inevitable. The only real question is whether it leads to catastrophe or extraordinary prosperity.
The second is that Anthropic believes the world will be better off if it remains at the frontier of the AI race, according to several former employees who spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity. Internally, leaders and employees at the company often refer to themselves as the “good guys,” meaning the ones being responsible stewards of AI technology, two of the sources said. The company sees accumulating power—whether in the form of capital, compute, research talent, or political influence—not as an end in itself, but as the price of fulfilling its mission: “to ensure the world safely makes the transition through transformative AI.”
Helen Toner, executive director of Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a former OpenAI board member, uses an analogy to describe Anthropic’s worldview. She compares powerful AI to a forest filled with both magical treasures and dangerous monsters. All the villagers nearby are rushing in, lured by the treasure. In her telling, Anthropic wants to venture farther into the forest than anyone else while investing heavily in taming the monsters—that is, capturing AI’s benefits while containing its catastrophic risks.
“What’s distinctive about Anthropic is they’re like, ‘People are going in the forest anyway, we have to do it first.’ This is very explicitly their strategy: build cutting-edge AI in order to be a serious player at the table who can talk about what cutting-edge AI systems should look like, what risks they pose, and pushing for reasonable safeguards,” Toner tells me. “They’re very straightforward about this. It’s just a weird enough strategy that people have a hard time hearing it.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlined this approach plainly in a conversation with his cofounders posted on the company’s career page: “You have to find a way to actually be competitive, to actually lead the industry in some cases, and yet manage to do things safely,” he says. “If you can do that, the gravitational pull you exert is so great.”
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI employees who defected after losing faith in the ability of the company’s leadership—particularly CEO Sam Altman—to safely bring transformational AI into the world. That sentiment still shapes the company today. Two of the former employees I spoke with say that, in internal discussions, Anthropic executives often describe Altman and OpenAI—and, to a lesser extent, Meta and Elon Musk’s xAI—as cautionary examples that help define Anthropic’s own sense of responsibility.
In many regards, Anthropic is just like any other Silicon Valley company. Many startups market themselves as David fighting the outdated, entrenched Goliaths of the industries they want to disrupt. Google, Facebook, and Apple were all founded upon idealistic principles, which later became muddied or were abandoned altogether as they became richer, larger, and more influential.
