Can Anthropic Control What It's Building?
Gideon Lewis-Krauss, a staff writer at The New Yorker, reports from inside Anthropic, an AI company developing Claude, a large language model positioned as a safer alternative to ChatGPT. His deep dive reveals a workforce of engineers and researchers who feel like canaries in the coal m
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