Opinion
15 articlesThe Doom Business: How Anthropic Turned Extinction Into a Sales Pitch
Anthropic sells caution, and caution has sold extremely well. The risks may be real. The question is who benefited from making them the centrepiece of a company.
Amodei’s Numbers, Checked One By One
A quarter chance of catastrophe. Half of entry-level white-collar jobs. A country of geniuses in a datacenter. What he said, what the record shows.
Anthropic Against Anthropic: When the Research Arm Won’t Back the CEO
The CEO forecasts mass job displacement on a one-to-five-year horizon. The company’s own economic research declines to forecast at all.
The Safety Premium: What Caution Is Actually Worth
Regulated buyers prefer the vendor with the paperwork. That preference built Anthropic’s enterprise business — and it is the asset 2026 put at risk.
The Cult of the Founder Is Distorting AI Coverage
Personality is easier to write about than systems, and the incentives point the same way. Why executive access shapes what AI journalism reports.
AI Leadership Is Still an Overwhelmingly Male Room
Speech recognition that fails on some accents, facial analysis that fails on darker skin. Those documented failures trace to who was in the room.
Benchmarks Are Broken. Here Is What Should Replace Them
Contamination, saturation and narrowness make public leaderboards a poor proxy for usefulness. The fix is held-out sets, negative results and funding.