“I find them to be intellectually honest in terms of believing what they say.”
Krishnan says frontier researchers he has encountered sincerely believe their warnings, while challenging the idea that one company or school of thought should represent the entire industry. He calls for perspectives from open-model developers, cybersecurity practitioners, and chipmakers.
- Speaker
- Sriram Krishnan
- Capacity
- Public post on Sriram Krishnan's individual account; the post does not identify itself as a formal government or institutional statement.
- Observed
- September 10, 2026
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
- Classification rationale
- Challenges claims of insincerity and industry-wide consensus; broader discussion, not an exoneration of Anthropic.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
The post addresses interpretations of the circulating researcher warnings as insincere and refers to his experience with researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, and elsewhere near the frontier.
After the quotation
Krishnan argues that the discourse is overly centralized and seeks broader perspectives. He does not endorse or reject a particular extinction probability or directly judge Anthropic's current conduct.
Evidence
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