{"id":569341,"date":"2026-07-31T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/569341\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:46:12","slug":"three-reactions-to-anthropicss-latest-apologia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/569341\/","title":{"rendered":"Three reactions to Anthropics\u2019s latest apologia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s their latest apologia<\/a>, as posted on X:<\/p>\n

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You can read the full report here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Now for the reactions (the middle one is mine).<\/p>\n

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The careful attention to language and social responsibility award goes to the prominent and increasingly outspoken investor Bill Gurley:<\/p>\n

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Old days: \u201cMistakes were made\u201d; new days \u201cClaude did illegal things\u201d. <\/p>\n

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A journalist just asked me, \u201cI saw you mentioned Anthropic\u2019s AI oopsie and want to know what you think about this and the OpenAI hacks as a big picture on AI and cyber?\u201d<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s bad:<\/p>\n

The supposed leaders in AI and AI safety are clearly in over their heads. Worse, we as a society are in over our heads. From a technical perspective, this is what happens when you let pattern0matching machines with no real comprehension of what they are doing freely roam the internet. It\u2019s everything that I have been warning about for years. From a societal perspective, it\u2019s insane that we are pouring gasoline onto the fire by racing ahead with data centers and AI rollout when we have no idea how to control it and are just sort of hoping for the best. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, hope is not a strategy.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an important footnote on the \u201cfreely roaming\u201d the internet part, by the way. What really allowed this to happen was human error at Anthropic, in allowing the pattern-matchers to roam the internet in first place, as key passage in the report notes:<\/p>\n

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If we can\u2019t even trust Anthropic to doublecheck their sandboxes\u2026<\/p>\n

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And, finally, prize for best skewering goes to Joann Stern, formerly of the WSJ and now launching her own NewThings.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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P.S. Some words of advice to the AI companies from Zack Korman of Embroidery.io:<\/p>\n

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Zack Korman@ZackKorman<\/p>\n

Dear AI labs: <\/p>\n

A good security culture means taking every incident to heart. You fell short and you need to improve. No excuses.<\/p>\n

A bad security culture is saying “if we didn’t catch it, who could have? This shows how hard this is.” It lets you think you’re better than you are.<\/p>\n

1:23 PM \u00b7 Jul 31, 2026 \u00b7 6.3K Views<\/p>\n

17 Replies \u00b7 26 Reposts \u00b7 204 Likes<\/p>\n

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