Mark Dice
Role at the time: Independent media analyst
Challenged the characterization
Statement summary
Mark Dice said Anthropic and OpenAI's public safety warnings are meant to block smaller AI competitors.
“The idea is that the reason why they're doing the fear-mongering is because they're trying to prevent smaller AIs... from rising in their sophistication... so that only a small handful of companies are allowed to actually develop and control this technology.”
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Mark Dice video on AI-doom coverage and Anthropic/OpenAI leadership.
Why we used this label
Dice argues Anthropic's and OpenAI's public safety warnings are a strategy to block smaller competitors from developing, disputing the sincerity of the companies' stated safety rationale.