Jacob Ward on Anthropic: ‘It‘s Not at All Clear How They Will Make Money’ If Blacklisted From Anything Connected to Government

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WARD: “It absolutely could be. Right. I mean, this is a very, very big deal for a company that is just starting to figure out its revenue model, even though it is of course, worth, in theory, $380 billion and has raised $30 billion so far this year. Right. You still got to figure out your revenue picture. And so it‘s not at all clear how they will make money if they are entirely blacklisted from anything directly or indirectly connected to the government. And so the big question now is who‘s going to step up after them? Because this is the thing that we‘ve seen over and over again in tech circles Anderson. It‘s a very weird thing for me as a tech journalist to see a company try to dictate the ethical use of its product beforehand. Typically, when you speak to tech CEOs, they say it‘s not my job to come up with the ethics that go along with this thing I have created. It will be up to democracy and the government to figure that out. But now we‘re living in this upside down in which it is the government seeking to pull anthropic past its ethical lines that it‘s seeking to set so the question now is will open a.I. And Google also have those kinds of ethical redlines, which is what a letter signed by a number of their employees has suggested that they want to stand with this company. But of course there‘s Elon Musk waiting in”