Security expert: Anthropic's dire warnings about its own AI are pure hype

Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we are trying to finish up early so we can sneak off for a huge World Cup afternoon. But first, we talk to a tech insider who tells us that Anthropic’s doom-mongering about AI is actually a hype machine designed to help it corner the market. Plus, we have polling that shows what the American public thinks of AI and its impact on the American Dream…

Anthropic sent shockwaves through the tech industry in April when it announced it had built a large language model so advanced, so awe-inspiringly powerful, so omnipotent, that it was simply too dangerous to release into the wild.