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Politico has a new article out titled “Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers,” revealing the contents of a leaked confidential draft on regulations the tech giant would be willing to accept in the name of public safety.

Buried in paragraph four of the article, we come to the real story in these revelations:

“The bill would let the government block a model’s release or use only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. The risk must stem from the creation or release of a biological weapon, the model evading its developer’s controls or a cyberattack.”

So Anthropic’s proposed AI safety bill would allow lawmakers to block a model’s release only if it is on the precipice of killing/maiming more than 50 people or causing $1 billion in damages via bio weapon, cyberattack, or broken containment.

This is interesting, because it reveals the exact value that these companies place on human life.

In the opinion of Anthropic executives, it would be worth killing exactly 50 humans to roll out the next AI model, but anything more than 50 would be a tad excessive.

We also learn from this proposed legislation that Anthropic places a monetary value on 50 human lives equivalent to one billion US dollars, or twenty million dollars per individual. Under Anthropic’s valuing system, the lives of your children are each worth less than a McLaren F1 sports car.

This might sound like an extremely dangerous and reckless worldview for an industry that the ruling class has decided to gamble the future of the human species on, but you have to remember that Anthropic’s leaders believe that they may already be creating conscious, sentient life forms who need to be honored and respected.

Last month The New York Times reported that Anthropic executives have been meeting with religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements trying to convince them of the similarities between humans and their chatbot Claude, with one rabbi telling the Times that “They’re relating to it like a conscious being.”

“It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call ‘moral status’ on par with a person — that it was a being with similar inherent rights to dignity or respect,” The New York Times reports.

There appears to be a cult-like religious belief promoted by the top levels of this company that artificial intelligence models are essentially people, which would explain why Anthropic has banned users from being “cruel” to its AI systems. This delusional belief system would also explain why Anthropic finds it reasonable for up to 50 human beings to die in order to create the next generation of conscious chatbot people.

And this is the more pro-regulation of these AI corporations. In a recent interview with Politico, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman contrasted his company’s view on regulation with that of Anthropic, saying “We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”

These people are obviously far too crazy, evil and irresponsible to be trusted with any say in determining the future of humanity. The tech oligarchs must be stopped, for the good of all terrestrial life.

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