{"id":751050,"date":"2026-06-21T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751050\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:15:38","slug":"fear-and-policy-in-san-francisco-anthropic-and-the-ai-reckoning-capital-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751050\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and policy in San Francisco: Anthropic and the AI reckoning \u2014 Capital Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI arguably grinds on the fumes of hype, so it can be hard to know when to pay attention, and when to scroll past the dystopian doomsayers.<\/p>\n<p>But for Amanda Askell, Anthropic\u2019s resident philosopher and in house ethicist, what looks like hype or fear-mongering has in the AI era more often than not turned out to be prescient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember when GPT-2 came out, I said people might need to start taking exams in pen and paper again because students will use AI to help with their homework, and lots of people were like, \u2018you\u2019re just hyping up these systems,\u2019\u201d Askell tells Capital Brief in her first Australian interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn retrospect, this isn\u2019t now considered a wild view. Yesterday\u2019s hype is in many cases just hype from a year ago \u2014 today it\u2019s just, oh, that\u2019s the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI arguably grinds on the fumes of hype, so it can be hard to know when to pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,2729,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-751050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}