Samuel Marks
Role at the time: Anthropic safety researcher, explicitly writing in a personal capacity.
Mixed or conditional
Responding to
Samuel Marks said robust AI alignment remains unsolved, competitive incentives contribute to continued development, and many frontier-lab staff want a slowdown to improve safety.
"“Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely.”"
Why we used this label
His personal-capacity statement supports the central criticism but presents continued safety work as a conditional rationale for remaining at Anthropic.